DFI Day 4

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Today we discussed the importance of students sharing their work with authentic audiences. As we delve into these discussion I had some ideas which I would like to try and implement into my literacy program next week at school. The first idea I had is begin using Google Slides to display the student learning.Students who are fast learners could extend their learning by recording themselves explaining their slide using Screencastify. This video could then be shared with the class and eventually we will begin to add students work to Blogger. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Learning how to use Google Sheets competently is something I have always wanted to learn, so I found this session really valuable. I am feeling a lot more confident and can see the value of this in my professional life. I collected my students assessment data and colour coded it to the different stanines my students are working at. My data is identified with a gradient from red (low), to yellow (mid) and green (high). I find that this gives me a quick visual of who is working at what stage for each assessment. 

Star Reading	PAT Math	Reading Comp.
6	6	7
3	6	1
6	5	3
9	5	5
9	6	9
7	6	6
7	4	6
3	2	2
9	8	5
5	4	5
5	5	3
4	3	3
9	9	9
4	3	4
9	9	8
1	2	2
7	5	7
6	4	5
4	1	4
4	3	4
1	2	2
6	4	2
6	4	5
1	1	3
5	3	5
6	7	6

I then took this data by highlighting the students names and their data went insert, chart. I played around with the different settings and chose a bar graph to display my students data. It is very clear in this graph what stanine each students in my class is working at from each assessment because of the coloured bars. 

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Over the week I had some trouble trying to erase the background on my students shark drawings so we has some discussion about some different sites to used and we found one that worked really well that I am going to use with my students next week. We went onto Burner Bonanza and in one click the background was deleted. Next week we will implement this site and use our shark drawings to start our animations on Google Slides. 

Before

 After

Experiments with Google (AR experiments) - Make music with your body movements on your Chromebook.

Screencastify - Students could create a video of how to complete a Chromebook skill and share this with
those who may need the rewindable learning to help them.

Google Slide ideas for Literacy - For my literacy program I could create a range of Google Slides to share
with my different learning groups. E.g. book reviews, spelling vocabulary, research projects.

Google Forms - We made our own Google Form where we can add questions for our students to answer. You can also add photos, videos and links in Google Forms.

Mt Google Form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FK_-HbP-YChTfqAYuqXMLmwvGmmL82QjEMYW5YWjWsc/edit?usp=sharing

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Following on from previous DFI sessions I used Toby Mini to create a new tab for my students writing group. I feel like this will be a really helpful extension that I will use in my personal life to simplify my tabs.