Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive Week 9 - (24/05/19)

Reflection Week 9 - 24/05/19

Today is the last Friday for the Manaiakalani DFI course. The day began with Karakia - connecting with a great group of educators and then the www session. Then we filled the feedback to the Manaiakalani Education Trust form.

In the Connecting with Manaiakalani Pedagogy and Kaupapa we had discussion about Ubiquitous

After that we had a session with OMGTech! (Trailblazers workshop).They are a charity that teaches kids to innovate with technology

In the deep dive session we had intro to the future of tech and what it means for our tamariki and Ethics and Morals of machines. We also had discussion on what do we value about ourselves and what do other people value in us that makes them willing to offer us jobs.

Then we had discussion about Artificial Intelligence, robots and driverless cars and its implications. Driverless cars were tested in NZ in 2007 at Tauranga. We also had discussion on introduction to the ‘Discipline language’ of Digital Technologies. Algorithm is a list of instructions for computer to follow. We had a practical session to start off learning about algorithms and debugging.

In the levelling up session we signed up online at https://kiatakatu.ac.nz/

After lunch break we started with an Hour of Code exercise followed by coding in scratch.

Today’s session was very helpful for increasing our computational thinking and also using the skills learnt effectively in our classes. Scratch programming is very interesting to use and code and it will surely generate lot of interest in students.

My sincere thanks and appreciation goes to the Manaiakalani Education Trust and my school Administrators for giving me the opportunity to attend this DFI course and up-skill myself with using the digital technologies. Special thanks and appreciation to my two facilitators Dorothy and Gerhard.

Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive Week 8 - (17/05/19)

Reflection Week 8 - 17/05/19

The day began with Karakia - connecting with a great group of educators and then the www session.

Next we had Connecting with Manaiakalani Pedagogy and Kaupapa focussing on empowered.

In the deep dive session we had a discussion on creating a new google classroom, adding students and creating tasks and assignments.

After that we sat for our Google Certified Educator level 1 exam. The exam was for 3 hours and consisted of 20 theory questions and 11 practical questions with different scenarios.

I was able to pass my exam and now I am preparing myself to sit for Google Certified Educator level 2 exam. As a result of passing the exam I received a badge and certificate from Google.

After that we had a shared lunch and then completed our blog post.

Today’s session was very interesting as we had to sit for a 3 hour test which was very comprehensive and reflected all the things we have learnt during the last 7 weeks.

Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive - Week 7 (10/05/19)

Reflection Week 7 - 10/05/19

The day began with Karakia - connecting with a great group of educators and then the www session in which we connected with Tairāwhiti DFI Cohort. I had a hangout call with Herman of Tairāwhiti DFI Cohort and Rudi of Auckland cohort. Next we had Connecting with Manaiakalani Pedagogy and Kaupapa focussing on cybersmart.

In the deep dive session we had Hapara Teacher Dashboard and learnt about things such as managing class lists, guide sessions, highlights and sharing.

In the chalk ‘n talk session we discussed Manaiakalani Journey. After that we had chromebook and ipad session and also had an exercise where we had to write the shortcut keys for chromebook.

After that we did registering for the Google Exam which we will be doing in next week’s session. Then we had a practice for Google Exam for the topic Sheets.

The last session was on Screencastify software to record either on Cybersmart or our Pepeha. 

I did the recording of my Pepeha.

Today’s session was very informative and interesting. Screencastify is very helpful to record our videos especially if we want to share our recorded videos to our students to give them further assistance.