Digital Fluency Session 5 - Connections

Connecting with High Schools other Primary Schools and Intermediates. Connecting School, Teacher and Students through common and shared language. Creating unity and connectivity through this shared language and familiarity to help learning in the future and for the future. Creating links with people in Papakura, around Auckland, New Zealand and the World.

If you don't have connections you are sharing with no one and with connections they want to see what you are doing or there is no connection. To be connected you need to share regularly. Students can see what other students are learning and how they are learning it. Rewinding there own learning and reinforcing it.

OMG - Tech

Gives children the opportunity to create through education provides equity of access of technology and a lot of content supporting learning in English, Te Reo and Pasifika.

Technological Practice - Only do what told like a computer; Chess board move the rover across board (miss obstacles river). Coder is across the room sending messages up down across and number of squares.

Bubble code one person moves at a time; if then if your number is bigger then move to the right sorting numbers may have to move along sequence multiple times. Then always run along an extra time to check sequence is correct.

This sorting code can sort information quicker. Children move at the same time as they 'flop' when they have decided if then and who moves where.

Coding

By understanding how binary code works children can understand how a computer works.

We created a maze in Scratch using code.

 

We pulled apart a CD Rom Drive and found 3 motors 2 DC/Universal motors and a stepper motor. Along with a lazer and mirrors and tiny screws.

3D Fabrication

There are different ways to fabricate objects 3D pens, 3D printer, Router and Lazer Cutter .
Using 3D Pens - We can digitally represent any object. We need children to be inspired to be engineers and creators.

Now just have to decide what to take back to school. 

Looking forward to using Hour of Code in class.

Digital Fluency Session 4 - Sharing is as old as Adam and Eve

Sharing

Sharing is as old as time but with media it is has become more user generated and amplified.

Create is a hook for learning and so can Sharing be a hook for learning. Need an audience, sharing via internet is larger. Authentic Audience - on the internet people can choose to listen/read.
Blogger only legal site for primary children. Most are illegal eg Facebook.

Sharing is not the end of learning. It can be a trigger to help continue with learning. And people can revisit it creating rewindable learning. Sharing is not the end for us as teachers either the feedback and feed forward is important for the learner to helping them to see what is next and what they have got.

3 quality posts in a week increase learning acceleration, 2 posts maintain learning. Commenting helps draw students back to the learning.

Google Sites 

Multi Model - Many different ways. Multiple modes of presenting learning. Engaging both behaviour and brains.

UDL - Universal Design for Learning

Text is not just the written word, sound bites, you tube, site with information... 

This helps acknowledge that every child is different. Remember some learn kinetically, orally, dramatically/performing, reading the written word.

To get full engagement and understanding you need to hook the students in using different modes. 

This is engaging for our learners - Engagement = The Hook

Eccentric - Need to think about the shop window how can we get them to school, ready to get to come to class and learn.  (Especially for the compulsory sector).

Try making our class sites eccentric.

I enjoy working with Multi-modal activities, as I feel energised just organsing them and finding them.

Digital Fluency Session 3 - Connecting to Media

The day started investigating ways we can record experiences in a rewindable way for learners. It was exciting to see that schools could record and live feed special events such as Cultural Performances or Sports Events for those unable to make it or are a long way away. This included how to create a YouTube Channel and how to make playlists to entice learners with learning.

We then moved into Google drawings and how to make buttons and keep them that same size by having multiple pictures around the canvas. And how to create a portrait that looks lifelike using the camera to take a photo and then in drawings using the polyline and colour dropper/colorzilla to add the correct colours. Then layer by layer adding facial features. Here is the beginning of mine.

    

Then we create an animation using google slides. This was fun and has huge potential for learners to show storyline or inquiry.

   

Then we create our Pepeha in slides. This was a great opportunity to use the experts in the room to help and ask the 'dumb' questions if I wasn't sure. Thank you.

    

Using Forms in a Class after Reading -

Fuelling Up with Fredge

We have been learning about 5+ a day and how a serving of fruit and vegetables can help keep you healthy. I had fun making the forms for the story. Having to come up with different answers was sometimes challenging. But I am glad I didn't have to think up all the questions. This one we didn't make into a quiz with points. The students tell me the quiz one we did on plants was the best one, so I will be making the next one into a quiz too.

Digital Fluency Session 2 - The World at your Fingers

Today we looked at Sheets and how they can help us analysis and create charts. I visited a blog and looked at where the visitors had viewed the blog from. Here is the Geo chart and you can see most of the visitors are from New Zealand.

I found the conditional formatting very helpful to analysis who is achieving in different subjects, such as spelling.

The most amazing part of today was to find out that information from a form can be exported to My Maps.

Digital Fluency Session 1 - Making Google Documents Easier and Interesting

Today we investigated google docs. It was interesting, it is not my usual way of presenting on a blog so please take a look as I am only practising what I learnt and using this opportunity to show it to others.