week 5 Manaiakalani Reflection

Teaching as inquiry
Manaiakalani Week 5 Reflection

garden site

Multi model sites are a great teaching tool with endless possibilities.  I am looking forward to seeing the explain everything and being able to experiment with my students using ipads.





 The visible learning presentation by Dani was inspirational and hearing stories from a current practicing teacher and her personal journey helped embed the pedagogy behind our children needing a greater audience for truly authentic learning.  I enjoyed the story Dani shared with her children's "place" to be was the baseball court next to burger king.  Her children linked in with one of our schools where our children's "place" was catching eels. Her children also were surprised that the Far North children had computers.  How to enhance all of our learning together with our tamariki.  The most powerful way for our children to be hooked on learning is with their peers.  The world is becoming so much more accessible.  We as teachers have the responsibility to be guiding our children on this journey.  

 Today we had time to create more through the create time and this was very useful to achieve more.  I think being given the content first to work with helped us because we didn't waste precious tool exploring time thinking of lesson content that we could use ourselves.  The garden topic was easily transferable through the levels  as given in the examples.




Manaiakalani Week 4 Reflection

http://google maps
 using data to add to google maps to personalize.

google sheets to google doc

using screen castify to show google graphs and google sheets

google sheets using screen castify


All these tools we used today e.g. google maps, google sheets, google forms, making graphs from a spread sheet, were new to me today, so I need to practice using these tools to embed them.  I see screen castify as a valuable tool for me because you will be able to revisit this when you are doing this alone and your personal notes don't have the detail you think that you had mastered when you are sitting without the experts.

The more I use blogger the greater my confidence but I still have heaps to learn.  I have developed a bad habit of not saving through  using google docs over an extended period time.  This is just a matter of retraining myself when using blogger.

sharing post over time

Manaiakalani 

Reflection Week 3

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Google Drawing

Google Slide

Today I have had a chance to use google draw and google slides 

Both of these examples are easily transferable to use with my students.  They could both be used as a teaching tool or they students could present their work to share with others.  I also tidied my tool bar and cleaned up my google drive.  These opportunities were so valuable not only have time with experts but also having so many "tricks" about how to be more efficient when using this tool instead of just muddling through by trial and error.  I am feeling way more confident to persevere and eliminate to get to where I need to be.

The Manaiakalani pedagogy regarding what create means as a New Zealand teacher was very refreshing.  As a teacher of New Entrant children we can often be left out of the loop when it comes to updating our skills.  I feel our young children are such a huge factor of being naturally confident when creating.    

Reflection Week 2 Manaiakalani

Reflection Week 2 Manaiakalani

Today's highlights were  learning more about organizing the task bar and being able to make folders.  This will allow quick access when I need it most.  I learned more about the capabilities of google calendar.  We did a google hangout.  Being able  to bring experts into your classroom or  communicate from distance places back to your class are other ways to add to the possibilities.  It seems to be a better option than using Skype.

Some personal advice would be continue to problem solve for myself when I find something challenging and keep persevering.

google hangout  Example