DFI Day 6 - 5.4.2019
What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Touching on making the learning journey visible for students and parents sparked some next steps for me to work on over the following weeks. I am aiming to get to a stage in my professional development where I am well planned and can add my planning to my class learning hub. We discussed the importance of learners knowing their next steps and for teachers to begin to think 'the default is visible'.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Today I was really captured by revisiting multimodal learning, where students are given a range of ways to access learning. I found that my understanding for this term was deepened further and I learnt the importance of the 'hook'. If a consumer is to come into a store to purchase something they are often first hooked by the window display and this is the same with students and their leaning. We need to hook our students into learning by creating content that is not only visually and aesthetically pleasing but multimodal and of interest to them. I have been trying to make my learning more aesthetically pleasing on my class learning hub using Google Sites so it was fantastic to see teachers examples of multimodal learning. Even for myself the task created instantly hooked me and looked far more interesting then a set of written instructions with no hook.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Feedback - Students are more likely to produce quality work if they are given feedback.
Novelty of Chromebooks can wear off so we need to develop effective practice for our digital learners.Video, animation, visual, make the learning inviting so the children want to open the learning.
UDL - Universal Design for Learning. People learn in different ways. Everyone is different. Left and right brain learning. Need to present multiple ways of accessing learning so that every learner gets a chance to learn in their own way.
Focus Browsing on Harpara - Set the students screens to focus browsing so their Chromebook is locked to a specific activity. This would be fantastic to implement int my literacy and mathematics programmes.
In the link below Beccs and I created a multimodal task using Google Sites. We included a range of visual images, videos and audio to engage our students in a range of ways.
What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Today we were a part of another Hangout video call and I found that by listening to a presentation online using headphones I was much more inclined to listen intently as I had less distractions around me. This then gets me thinking further into providing students with multimodal opportunities like this as this was one way I noticed myself enjoying the learning taking place. I have recently asked my students to bring headphones to school so they can listen to their screencastify videos and this gets me thinking about the effect of using such technology with my students and the impact it could have on their learning.
