dfi reflection Tuesday May 28

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Today I learned a reasonable amount about setting up multi-modal pages on our class website. Mainly this learning how to set things up eg. I set up my maths page in a multi-modal style, adding slide shows and videos. If I can get quicker & smarter at this I can see it streamlining my requirements for planning, prep, assessment, engagement, visibility and accountability into one space.

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

This learning will go towards our site being operational ie. engaging and functional, which it is neither at the moment! This year my students have been doing a lot more of their learning digitally, and this is a timely continuation of that pathway for my students and myself.

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

My workload/workflow is bearing down on me at the moment, and I am not getting everything done. This has an effect on my home life. This process may improve this.

maths page in progress

DFL number 3 reflection

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

Dorothy discussed what creativity can be in schools, and this made me evaluate my ideas of what creativity is, and think about how I can create more or better thought out creative opportunities in my class.

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

I learnt to embed maps and charts into blogs and other apps, something that I had tried to teach myself last week without any success. I learnt a few handy time saving tips on sheets eg freeze line which is useful to me. Ditto for Hapara, I'm not using it as well as I would like to, and asked Mark to show me how to work with my groups, which I had been struggling with.

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

Embedding charts and maps into blogs.

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

DFI W2

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

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

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

The WWW reflection/sharing time was useful in 2 ways. Firstly I got a few tips about how I might solve a problem I had with voice to text. I think this has a lot of potential for my students, and am keen to get it going smoothly. Secondly, I thought this process would be very useful to use in my class with the students. I have done similar things before, but for some reason I can't define the terminology of What worked, what didn't work, what do you need help with ? hit the spot with me. Additionally actually typing and sharing responses with each other at the same time was interesting and much more engaging for me than just talking which often leads to me losing focus. I have often struggled to get a really clear picture of exactly what the kids have learned, not learned and need help with, and this model could be another way of clarifying and deepening my understanding of the students learning from their perspective.

Some of the workflow tools appeared to be useful for me and may be helpful in streamlining some of the things I do. In particular Google Keep is a practical note taking system that is very quick to use.