3. Media

What I learnt that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy was all about creating. Creativity skills help students to become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators. Give students something to do rather then something to learn.

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional is around using slides, mote, and screen castify as a way to present learning to my students and make learning rewindable.

What I learnt that could be used with my learners is the different functions on google slides/ google drawings has and how to use infographics as a more appealing way to share information to the viewer.

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life is how to create a youtube channel/ playlist on youtube.

2. Work flow

What I learnt that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy is around the concept of learning and using digital technology as an effective teaching tool to promote accelerated learning. One of the DFI goals is to support teachers to aquire fluency using the basic tools required for effective teaching, planning, assessment, and professional learning. 

Learning in our kura looks like one to one devices and all management, teaching, and admin staff have all completed the DFI course and in turn equipped with the basic tools required for effective teaching and learning. 

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability and workflow as a professional is around how to use google calenders to organise myself and my time more effectively. I learnt how to create a google meet using calendars, present tabs, whole screen and record my presentation/ google meet for rewindable learning. I also learnt how to organise my tabs more effectively - especially the pinning tabs function. I also learnt about the functions of google keeps and excited to start using this app in my professional and personal life. The ‘Grab text from the image’ option will differently be a time saver. 

1. Core Business (DFI)

What I learnt that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy was the origins and development. I learnt that Manaiakalani supports schools in low socio-economic and challenged communities to achieve significant improvements in students outcomes, realising learners potential and enabling digital citizenship for tauira and their whānau. 

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional was how to use google docs to it's full potential. Work smarter not harder. 

What I learnt that could be used with my learners is how to use voice typing for reading mileage and how to create a visual poster using google docs. 

Visual poster

8. Computational Thinking

What I learnt that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy was around the word EMPOWERED and about empowering our students to discover the treasures that lies within them.

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional is knowing what apps are available that can assist my students with coding/ programming.

I learnt how to code/ program within scratch. This program could be used with my learners to teach them the basics about coding/ programming.  

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life is around my ability to empower the next generation.

7. Devices Agenda

What I learnt that increased my understanding of the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy was around cyber safety and the importance of incorporating these tips/ expectations into our teaching. 

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional is around screencastify so that learning is rewindable. This will be helpful when students are away and/ or for students who need to hear/ see the instructions again. 

What I learnt that I could use with my learners is around the use of the chrome books and familiarising them with the functions and keyboard shortcuts. I also learnt how to use the explain everything on the ipad to complete task.   

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life is around cyber safety and to ensure the best care and responsibilities for my personal devices. 

6. Reflection/ Enabling Access - Sites;

What I learnt that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy was connecting learners/teachers/ schools, making learning visible, empowering the learners using google sites. 

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional is how to lead learning using google sites. This will ensure that the learning in my class is visible. Allow learning to be accessible from anywhere/ anytime. 

What I learnt that could be used with my learners is how use google drawings and the types of functions that can be used there. I also learnt how to create a google/ class site to lead learning. 

What I learnt that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life is how to use the google apps to its full potential.

Manaakitanga class site

5. Collaborate - Sites

What I learnt that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy was how to create a multi modal site for my learners and how it needs to be visually appealing to the students/viewer/ reader so that it's not so boring. I am looking forward to creating and using google sites within my classroom program.