DFI- Week 9

Week 9- Revision

Ubiquitous Learning- Able to learn anywhere, anytime, any pace from anyone 

Making the learner the centre of the learning. The digital world has enabled this to become a reality. This became a reality this year. If the technology hadn’t been embraced in your school before this, lockdown was difficult.

Traditionally, learning took place at school. This is still a reality for some kids (NE students arriving with 30,000,000 less than ‘usual’)- not only low decile kids but a good percentage of them are affected by this. Summer slide is a typical example of this. Outside of the hours of schooling, a lot of young people aren’t having highly effective learning experiences. Summer Learning Journey example. Access vs no access. 

Makes a difference when teachers take time to create rewindable learning. E.g. older students helping out siblings were able to go back and do their learning at a later time.

DFI Week 8- Computational Thinking

Today we had a focus on Computational Thinking. We talked about the the Digital Technology Curriculum. 

If we have digitally fluent teachers we will naturally get digitally fluent students. Working side by side and working together/learning together.

Important to teach students how to validate information on the web as so much fake news and information online! 

Three strands

• Technology practice

• Technology knowledge

• Nature of Technology- good starting point for how to include aspects of the new digital curriculum across subjects. (e.g. creating digital timeline, creating Whakapapa)

In progress outcome 1 you are often not using a computer.

Progress outcome 2: outputs and sequencing- a series of instructions. E.g. programming the bee to get to the hive. (start with pen and paper to write the instructions).

We looked at some different Coding opportunities to help our understanding of Computational Thinking. This just frustrated me as it was tricky to get it to do what I wanted. The kids are much better at using these than me! I use Code.org as part of my Literacy Can dos and some of the kids are really good at creating their own codes and work on them over a period of time. In the future perhaps I can use as a Tuakana Teina programme.

Here is a screenshot of my Scratch background which I got frustrated with and gave up.