Jane Clifford Professional Blog

A cold day for the Google for Education Exam Level 1. My reflection on the DFI Course I feel privileged to be able to attend this course as professional development. I have already enjoyed the benefits, not only  in my own workload organisation and planning, but supporting colleagues and of course having engaging activities for students. Some of the simple things have had a big effect in my classroom. In particular, showing students how to present their procedural writing in Google docs within a table, merging cells and colouring, had a positive impact on the quality of their work. In other words, their writing content was of a higher quality because they could present and share it in a stylish format. A more challenging way for my year 5 students to share their learning was to complete a slideshow, as a pick-a-path quiz about the Riroriro Bird - our new class name. The students were so amazingly quick at catching on to this and it also met computational thinking -digit...

                                               Equity for Empowerment Manaiakalani set about making provision for equity for students and their families in their Decile 1 part of Auckland. Richard Burt describes in this short clip, how equity  needed to be addressed to then empower learners. 'The Manaiakalani kaupapa of empowerment is about the advancing of Rangatiratanga; taking back control of their own lives.' Pat Snedden, Chair MET Empowerment during Lockdown. A teacher discussed on his blog post (above) that home learning in lockdown was a time when his students had 'TRUE' choice. They could freely engage with the learning he presented OR NOT!!                 Digitally fluent and digitally capable. 'A digitally fluent person can decide when and why to use specific digital technologies to achieve a specific task or sol...

  Take aways from this: Create multi modal reading 'slides' that are based around a theme rather than a topic. Examples may be helping others, problem solving, friendships or other more complex ideas such empathy. To gain the inferential thinking you want - you may decide to keep  the texts easier for a start. 5 + different texts a day is a great goal for a literacy rich environment for students.

Ubiquitous Def: present, appearing, or found everywhere The affordances of technology make learning available in accessible and interesting ways, and at times to suit the learner. Learners require different amounts of rewindable support. As a parent, conversations with my own children about what they are learning are so much more interesting when we can have a look at what and how they are learning, for example, a maths strategy. Rewindable Learning Rewindable learning enables ubiquitous learning.  What it looks like:   Class site that is easy for students and whānau to navigate and find information. Use of Screen Castify or new video tool on screen shot (Chromebooks only) to record teaching and learning to watch later. You tubes / teacher tools (maths) for videos of strategies. Blog links and examples of work from others classes. This is where learning comes about for some learners from the sharing by others. Cybersmart This goes hand in hand with our Manaiakalani Learni...

This week I felt a quick Google Drawing of some main points around connectivity would be best for my future rewindable learning. The five affordances of LEARN CREATE SHARE causing accelerated shift are: engagement teaching conversations cognitive challenge visibility scaffolding Connectivity & Visibility through sites Reflection I have been thinking about the importance of connectivity together with visibility to get as much engagement as possible from learners and from their whānau. I have joined Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu, and have added links to my two buddy class blogs to both my class site and class blog. Hoping to maximise sharing ideas with buddy schools and between students, opens my classroom up beyond the walls of our school, and enables my students to connect with others in Auckland. I will encourage students to strike up digital relationships with individual class members of our buddy classes. Also I now have quick access to all my student blogs...