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 😀