Digital Worlds Session Four

Modeling and explicitly teaching the strategies to answer a multi-choice test

Reflection on making critical reading visible -

-We talked about how our students only read half the answers when doing multi-choice, they just click keywords they see without checking.

We talked about using comprehension short text, multichoice to develop these skills.

Disturbing students thinking

Choose an opposing

Organise prompt cards/signs

Get the students to argue with each other. This prevents the T:S:T response. We are wanting more S:S talking.

Get them to find a text to find out.

Look at the texts- this will tell you a lot about their searching skills

Take the texts (They gave to you) and make an argumentation board.

Get them talking use prompts

THEN Go Meta! (Reflect about what you are thinking/ metacognitive)

Next Steps: Fake News Inquiry Enactment

Idea for next class on-air episode.

Intensive Session 8

Todays session started by talking about empowerment. Dorothy discussed the idea that a digital device is not just a tool it should be used to empower students. It made me think about empowerment in my classroom. I thought about the choices I give by students and how I could give their more choice to empower them to drive their own learning. This connects well with my goals around inquiry learning which I am going to be focusing on over the next few weeks and into Term 3.  I want my students to be able to choose what they want to learn and how they want to present their learning. I also want to move into more of a facilitator role opposed to a directive role. I am going to be doing this by using an inquiry model to help direct myself and my students; as a result, students will be empowered through their ability to choose their learning focus. 

Empowerment is learner centered, future focused and personalized- which all tie in with Inquiry learning. 

New Google Sites. I also had a go at looking at the new Google sites. Although it had many limitations, it was user-friendly and easy to create. I made this site below in less than an hour. 

Site example

Digital Intensive Session Two

Todays 'Digital Intensive Session' focused on google sheets and google forms. I have attached below both my google form and map to share my learning. The session helped enhance my knowledge in google spreadsheets and gave me tips on how to save a lot of time such as dragging down to automatically formulate numbers/ days of the week etc. I am going to try and create a spreadsheet for my student data as I now know how to calculate the average results, and condition the formatting to focus on a particular set of data. I saw google forms as a helpful app to gather whanau and/ or student voice. In particular I am going to use google forms in Parent interviews to gather more information on my students and how the parents view their learning- this will help direct my teaching focus. For my writing inquiry I want to use google forms to gather student voice- I could put the data into a google spreadsheet and track my student voice over the term to show progress and improvement. 

Manaiakalani Intensive - Session Week 1

Session One (5th May 2017)

Learn

Today’s session focused on exploring google docs, google extensions/ add ons, harper teacher dashboard. Here are the notes below.

Main goals of Manaiakalani:

• Was to motivate learners to engage with the curriculum.
• Create an authentic audience (more than just the teacher)
• Personal voice is valued and powerful
• Raise achievement outcomes

Lead teachers of Manaiakalani achievement was observed. (Large shift in N.S results 2010 compared to ‘normal’ classes not using the learn create share philosophy.)

-Internet into students homes??? Kotuitui

-Whanau- need to be active partners- Could we do a whanau/student- chromebook share? On top of what G. is doing?? -Could the students take part and present as part of next years induction?/ could students present what and how the chromebooks can be used for?

-How can whanau support their students at home?( Is this monitored?)

- School collaboration - Primary/ College.

-Parents can constantly view students work.

-Purpose of this - Intensive programme about supporting teachers outside of the classroom.

Google Save (Similar to bookmarking but a visual display a large amount of content)

Google Drive- Organising folders.

Am I teaching my students what I learn here? Think am I building my students tech capability? Can I give suggestions throughout my lessons?

Google Docs

Create headings and a table of contents (Each heading has its own link. So you can send your document and it will take the person to the specific heading/ part of doc you want them to look at).

Example

Figure out how to put it into my site!

Google Voice typer

• Using google typer (Next week could do for follow up for reading) - English NZ
• Reports/ reflections.
• Get students ideas down.

Publish to web- becomes a mini website.

Addons

• Easy accents - Maori accents for words
• Docutube- (Keep students on a specific video)
• LucidCharts- About charts and diagrams.
• “Move it” - Get students up on their chromebook (Chrome Extension)
• Hyperlink
• bitly
• Doc secrets
• Word Cloud
• https://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/  - (Shared document, PB4L- then create a wordcloud).
• Talk and comment ( to support low level readers and ESOL) ( Allows you to voice comment on a document- students can listen to the comment if you want to discuss something in depth.

Teacher Dashboard

-Drop and drag to move students.

-Can show more than 5 items.

- Parent dashboard?

-Password- Maybe students have their own?

- You can email students all at once.

Create

Share

I was able to take away new tools and skills for myself and for the students. As you can see in the venn diagram I have many tools and new skills that I am going to implement in the next few weeks. The comic about the kawa of care will help me pull in my digital skills and also support my students in caring for their chromebook. This session has helped enhance my confidence with google docs, harper and the learn create share pedagogy. I am hoping to present some ideas back at my school and cluster in particular for my school inquiry ( Writing) using the voice typing add on for google docs- this will help my lower writers get their ideas down on paper. ALSO the extension of type and comment will help me give more detailed feedback that students can listen to again and again- opposed to me saying it once (Rewindable learning). Could also use the type and comment to give students instructions.