Day 4 Reflections

 Day 4 Reflections

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

This week we looked at the sharing part of the Pedagogy. Sharing is all about making connections. During Lockdown, in just one month about 30,000 pieces of learning and posts were shared across the country. Last year's research data also showed that Manaiakalani students showed a progress in writing and it raised the achievement outcome. People have been sharing using a variety of social media. Sharing since the time began was done with one another, the school, the local community and now in digital age, sharing is done globally. 

Blogger has been chosen as a platform by Manaiakalani to share as it resembles the space our young people want to be on. It's the largest audience reach via Google. It is multi purposed and can be used by both teachers and learners. sharing has encouraged the students to blog more and share their work to a worldwide audience. Sharing is regarded as a starting point of new learning. It has helped learners to develop digital citizenship and it connect the leaners together.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Creating a google form after completing a strand in Maths or inquiry would be a great help to help students understanding.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners, how could they use

Google my maps - My students are already using google my maps to connect to other schools (other students) but maybe I can teach them in detail how to add a layer or direction or  change the base map.

A the moment my learning are reading other students blog post and the comments so Quality blog comments could be helpful when they get to comment to other students blog posts. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Using Google sheets instead of creating a table in word document while preparing an analysis for Reading, Writing or Maths would be helpful.

Example of Google Sheet 1:

Example of Google Sheet 2: Julianna's Blog Post.

Day 3 Reflections

 Day 3 Reflections

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani Kaupapa and pedagogy?

This week we focussed on the creative part of the pedagogy. Creative skills help students to become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators. By exposing children to creative experiences, we give them the gift of a rich and memorable childhood. Creativity is all about thinking, exploring, discovering and imagining. To neglect the contribution of the arts in education, either through inadequate time, resources or poorly trained teachers, is to deny children access to one of the most stunning aspects of their culture and one of the post potent means for developing their minds. Creativity focusses on the process of forming original ideas through exploration and discovery.

One of the foundation goals of the Manaiakalani Programme is to "motivate our learners to engage with the curriculum" and creativity plays a significant part in learning and teaching opportunities. Effective teachers designed tasks to generate thinking and allowed students for collaboration and choice in learning and creating. Creativity is considered as one of the 6 C's of Education in the 21st century. Finally, Creativity empowers learners.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

I have enjoyed creating a playlist on You tube that I'll use during my art time with the students. Different ways to create media and next time when I'm taking a photo or video I can create a tripod stand. 

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

I learned how to use google drawing and I would definitely try it with my learners. Set that as an activity to use shapes and draw something. I also enjoyed doing animation which I am looking forward to try with my learners.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I have enjoyed creating a playlist on You tube that I'll use while doing my work. Different ways to create media is quite beneficial and next time when I'm taking a photo or video I can create a tripod stand. 

Day 2 Reflection

 Day 2 Reflection

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

This week we focussed on the Ako (Learn) component of the Pedadogy. I learnt the four goals of Manaiakalani which describes both teachers and students as learners. The underpinning believe of the Manaiakalani Programme is Effective teachers implement effective practice and this needs to be recognisable no matter which world it is happening. It's very important that when we move into this digital world, we need to recognise the effective practice that is making a difference to our young people whether we are in a digital world or in a digital teaching environment.

The key messages for Recognising Effective Practice are: learning by reading from authentic texts, by sharing ideas in discussion, by thinking categories and developing strategies and collaborating and making choices in learning, creating and sharing. 

Manaiakalani has presented an idea of learning through RATE (Recognise, Amplify, Turbocharge, effective practice in the digital world of our learners). Highly effective teaching is happening through the Manaiakalani Programme and these effective teachers are prepared to invest in the young people: invest their expertise and their passion and are open to learning mindsets. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

I learnt how to use Google Keep as I feel it's very useful to take notes as we go through the day. Previously, I always used sticky notes and attached it to my laptop.  I also found using and saving the signature in the gmail quite convenient so now I don't have to write my name every time I send an email. Another thing I found very useful was changing the settings for Undo Send to 30 seconds. Creating a Google Meet and inviting other people will also be useful next time when we have some crisis where we have to do online teaching.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

I learnt how to record myself when I'm commenting on a blog post in Google Meet while presenting/ sharing my screen with my buddy. Even though my video is not that great but I am definitely going to try that out with my students. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I learnt how to use Google Keep and I feel it's a very useful tool to take notes as we go through the day. I also love the voice memos as this app converts the speech to text. I found Calendar quite useful as well which will help me to note the important dates for family functions and events.

Day 1 Reflection

Day 1 Reflection

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? 

Looking at the pedagogy of Manaiakalani: Learn, Create and Share, I learnt that the Manaiakalani Programme is not only achieving improved educational results, but also realising the potential for greatly enhanced employment and life outcomes for our students.

Being at a school where we started the 1:1 journey this year, I do feel that I'm privileged to get a chance to learn alongside my students as I am having in-class support with Maria Krausse and I have learnt a lot of things which now I can teach my students.  

This programme will help my learners and their whanau, and enable them to access their learning anywhere, anytime and at any pace. They will support the parents to buy a personal digital device for each learner and providing wireless internet access at home and school. During Covid-19, it was very difficult to communicate with the students as only 1/3 of my class had access to internet so through Manaiakalani I am confident that in the near future all my students will have a device to work at home with. 

The Manaiakalani story is very powerful and liberating. I also learnt that the Manaiakalani Education Trust was formed in 2011 to ensure the schools delivering the Manaiakalani programme have the resources they need to make the most of the opportunities available through digital technologies. 

I learnt that Manaiakalani is the name of a star line, translated "The Hook from Heaven". It’s also a perfect metaphor for our journey of discovery using digital learning tools as a hook and a guide to deliver the knowledge our children need to be successful citizens of the 21st century.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

As a professional, to improve my confidence and capability, I learnt the importance of organising the folders in my drive (store, locate, share, collaborate). I also learnt that when creating a new Google Doc how to add a title and heading to the documents. I also learnt how to separate the documents into paragraphs giving them a title, changing the font and colour of the title and how to insert a table of contents into a google doc. I am more confident in using the voice typing from the tools and recording the story. From now onwards I'll be using google docs when I'll be recording the staff minutes or our levels minutes using these tools. 

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

Voice typing was one thing that I would love to use with my learners since I have some hesitant writers in my class so this will help them in their story writing. This would also help the other learners in class to write a story using the Google Docs.

I would also love to use Google Docs with my learners to create a poster just like the one I created today.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

To improve my confidence and capability in my personal life, I learnt the importance of organising the folders in my drive (store, locate, share, collaborate). While doing my assignments in future I would be confident in using the Google Docs (giving my document a table of confident, title, headings, etc).