DFI 2021 Week 2

There seems to be a bit of a theme coming through from the DFI: once again I have learned something from every session that I can use, was able to share some of my knowledge and practised some new skills.

I also found out that Janet Wilson and I were at training college together 😄

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

AKO - RATE

Recognise what effective practice looks like

Amplify effective practice (effective teachers using technology to amplify effective practice)

Turbocharge effective practice (eg using SAMR); capturing teachable moments and rewindable      learning

Effective Practice

What is our understanding of what effective practice is, especially in a digital learning environment?

What is our shared understanding and what do we bring that strengthens it?

Dorothy asked some really good reflective questions about LEARN - what does it look like in my kura? What PLD have we done? How effective were they? Do we have a learning framework? Do we have a platform that underpins how we work eg PB4L, A4L, etc. We go through and reflect these at different stages in our journey, but we don't tend to stop and revisit all of them together.

Good teachers are good teachers and good teaching is good teaching, but I really like Dorothy's quote from 2016 on slide 28 about technology helping kids learn in 'engaging ways that simply weren't possible in the past'. That's why I'm here.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Yay more tips to help tame the tabs! (Another tip - you know you have too many tabs open when the screen isn't wide enough to show them all). I'm going to try bookmarking some tabs, look at TobyMini and group tabs for DFI, meetings, etc where I only need them open all together at one time.

I really like the idea of using Keep with photos from my phone, transcribing text and inserting notes and images into docs. I'm going to check if/how our teams are using it.

I think it's time to revisit using the Calendar. We have a HPS Community Calendar which is on our website and used frequently. I'd like to try some of what I've learned today, including making that calendar a contact and inviting that email address to an event to synchronise parts of calendars. I think it would be really good PLD for our admin staff too.

Here is a piece of work from today:

Questions I have:

Were the pictures on slide 23 of the Manaiakalani presentation supposed to be live links?

Can the presentations be recorded? Even though we have access to the slides, the explanations by the presenters are important and have key information. This week it seemed like the slides are the what and the explanations are the how - they work together.

Thanks Vicki for answering my questions about how to change the size of the video.

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

Individuals and teams use what they have learned at DFI. Together we can decide what we want to implement as school wide systems and processes.

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

My maths students will be able to embed a video of their learning onto their blogs. They probably already know how to do this, but I will be able to help them if they need it.

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

Once again, the shortcuts are very useful. I've taken more notes this time as there weren't notes under lots of the slides like there were last week.

I'm looking forward to next week 😀

DFI 2021 Week 1

 

My first day on the DFI 2021 has been interesting and challenging. I learned something from every session that I can use, was able to share some of my knowledge and practised some new skills.

Most of our staff have completed the DFI, so it will be good for us to share our learning and things we would like to implement in teams or across the school.

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

I really liked that the focus is on 'working together changes a community'.

I will reinforce the five goals with my staff and we will reflect on how we do that within our context. They are really good to keep us focussed.

We know that LCS is about the pedagogy not the tech, but it is always good to have that reminder. Hearing about the focus on literacy and very limited tech reminded me of my own practice in class when we had four of the colourful macs to share in our class.

I really liked the literacy cycles. I'm keen to speak to our teachers who have completed the DFI to see what they think.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
One thing I will use much more effectively is my bookmarks bar. Keeping my most often used tabs there, with or without the names will mean that I won't have my usual 50+ tabs open (which will please quite a few people who are horrified at seeing all my tabs open and are astounded when I can easily find what I need!). I've already added my drive and my blog to the bar.

I will try using the priority box on my drive for the docs I use frequently and change as needed. It is great that I can delete files and change as needed.

I will also try narrowing searches in my drive by using the arrow in the search bar.

I have already added numbers to some of my folders so they are easier to go to in my drive.

Here is a piece of work from today:

Questions I have:

In Google groups is it possible to change the settings so not everyone receives everyone else's responses?

I will try to use the digest setting (?) to see how that works for me, but I don't want to add to my peers' already hefty emails by having my responses going to them too.

How can I have files on my drive in multiple places?

I will try using command Z and see how that goes.

How do I change the default text type in docs from Cambria?

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

The importance of collaboration and real time fits really nicely with our maths programme.

I will see how we can use voice typing for journalling.

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

The shortcuts are great eg command T is a new tab and command shift T takes me back through each of the tabs I have just closed to find what I want.

I'm looking forward to next week 😀