What I learned that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy:
The definition of EMPOWERMENT as advancing rangatiratanga spoke to me quite a bit today. Apart from the social and moral imperative to work for equity I think I like the idea of 'joy coming from empowering students to discover the treasure that lies within them'.
I love it when kids get quietly ambitious - when they hook on to their potential and start striving a bit and enjoying the feeling of success as they start to experience it in their high school life, when they realise how capable they are and what they are capable of.
Whatever else I do as a teacher - believing in this potential in each learner and being quick to spot it and point it out and celebrate it and nudge it and enjoy it (publically or more quietly depending on the student) puts me in a happier place with each learner and, I hope, promotes some self-belief and empowerment.
I am already seeing empowerment in the digital world growing in the learners in my class. Even showing the kids google drawing and setting tasks within their projects where they have to use it has been fun (& engaging) for them and has allowed creative potential and success - these are the DLOs that they want to share and look at on the class site.
What I learned that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional:
I will be adding the learning outcomes from the digital competencies curriculum into my department's planning - we attempt to integrate NZC learning outcomes (and big ideas) from all the core subject areas under themes in our department (but it hasn't included digital outcomes at all so far - even though it has started to include DLOs for learning and assessment)
What I learned that could be used with my learners:
I will get the kids to play with coding - using some of the tutorials from today's DFI and think about applications beyond the playing (although the playing is also awesome on its own)
What I learned that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life:
I won't be so left behind in coding language conversations perhaps :)
I enjoyed my Minecraft Hour of Code - good little bit of problem solving and debugging and success - might have another play in my spare time.
Voila!
Kia ora Lisa. I really enjoyed our conversations today about your students attitudes towards sharing and how you plan to integrate the progress outcomes into your planning. I'm excited to hear about how things develop with your team and your students.
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil ... it's been a bit of a revelation that the students wanted to see themselves and their work on the class site...partly because they had me convinced that they didn't want anyone seeing their work and partly because there are still some teenage cliques in my class and I feel like I am still working on getting the kids to know and trust and respect each other ... they resist working outside of their friendship groups and you'd have to be pretty thick skinned even with friends in some groups (the banter seems harsh to me but they say it's 'fun' to them)...so yes... Now I feel like the Learn - Create - SHARE sequence might be possible after all!
ReplyDeleteOn another note ..thank you very much for your patience and knowledge and great modelling and sharing of digital fluency.... the DFI has been heaps of learning for me and I am looking forward to what we can do with it in my class, department, school and cluster. Nga mihinui
It's been an absolute pleasure Lisa. I'm amazing how many new tips and ideas I pick up each day on DFI too! Stay in touch and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
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