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...
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...
It was great to be back at St Francis of Assisi for the second day of DFI. Dorothy's talk today was on Effective Practice. Recognise what is Effective Practice in your school. There will be programs within our local school context that are well aligned with High Leverage Practices. For example, PB4L, DMIC, Learning through play. Amplify Effective Practice. Using affordances of digital technology to enhance the high leverage practices. For example: Collaborating on shared documents; finding more authentic texts digitally; ease of using multi-modal reading material. Turbocharge effective Practice. Using the affordances of technologies to transform the way we learn, and to offer new experiences and opportunities. using technology we can remove barriers for children to learn and find new ways of learning. Find new solutions to problems. Reflection for my practice. Today I discovered a lot of digital tools that will make me as a teacher, more efficient in my administr...
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