Reflection - Week 4 DFI

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

Today I liked how Dorothy explained that we have an instinct to share and over the past years we have had different platforms that we could do this on. These platforms have been a way to 'hook' learners in. It helps the learners stay connected and enables them to share.

I am still very new to the digital classroom and one point Dorothy made today stuck with me and that was with the slide containing the box of exercise books in a plastic tub sitting under the teacher's desk and this does not empower our learners, it does not enable them to be connected and often probably dampens their will to share. It made more sense why we get our students in our class to blog and the importance of that feedback - feedforward process. Blogs enable students to share with a much larger audience in turn they receive a lot more feed back. This feedback is so valuable to the learner.

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

I find this course kind of like a roller coaster! With some activities I can feel my confidence growing and then with others I feel completely lost! Highs and lows just like a roller coaster. This has made me reflect on what the classroom must be like for some of my students. I have a certain few in mind!

I am gaining confidence in taking activities back and sharing them with my class. Some of my students are very capable digitally so it's quite a big thing for me to 'have a go' with my class! I must admit they are very patient and I have shared with them I am learning and need time to practise with them.

I liked part of the google sheets and can see how this would help me organising data collected from students. I just need to have some quiet time to practise.

I like learning the 'quick tips' on Harpara. A great wee tip on viewing blogs in one space and moving those tiles around to keep an 'eye' on some students.

I found the data collection and converting to a table tricky today but I can see that this would be very useful in the classroom and in my personal teaching work.  Thank Amy for being so helpful!  

It was such a quick way to gather data and create a table.  I like how we can use the formatting tools to add titles, axis, change colours of texts.  I think I will have another play with this function before next week to ensure I feel confident enough doing this on my own.  

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

I like the idea of using google forms in some way with my students and then maybe linking to the Google My Map. I really like the My Map and can see my students would enjoy using this feature. I intend on finishing my Pepha in slides with my students before I head into another activity.

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

I could totally use Google My Map in my personal life when planning family adventures away.