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UBIQUITOUS = Anytime Anywhere Any pace Anyone
Empowering the learner and the teacher. AGENCY is the term I would use to describe this. I loved listening to Dorothy speaking on this as I have found from personal experience - that empowering students and having a sense of teacher agency - has resulted in the most effective learning/teaching - with tangible results.
It has been awesome to move throughout this course towards a small feeling of excitement re incorporating digital skills and tools into the fluid outdoor/ enterprise / student business programme - as I have upskilled and gained confidence. The students are great - they know what I am good at and are happy to help me out with the digital world. We work together.
"Its just a tool" - Guilty!!!! That would be me - more than once. Challenging point from Dorothy - and fair enough too. I guess moving towards a position where I have more confidence with the digital realm - has been the necessary shift to make the pivot - "Its NOT just a tool."
ANYTIME ANYWHERE ANY PACE
Refer - Edith Paikanga Davis (Bay of Islands College) - digital world offers a level playing field - where EQUITY is key.
What are you proud of?
What do you regret?
What have you taken forward into the new era of schooling?
Being cybersmart. Kua tangata whenua ki te ao matihiko. Looking at digital footprint = priority foci for each term - refer cybersmart annual overview.
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Hapara. Well - this really is the next step from g classroom. I look forward to exploring and becoming familiar with this workspace provider.
Ding!!!!! The light just went on. Its called Kerry showing us the Hapara workspace examples.....i just checked out under NZC - and there it was.....Sustainability! ye Gods. I don't have to reinvent the wheel. Must have missed the memo.
Screencastify = cool!!!
A touch on ipads and chrome books. Explain Everything worth looking into.
A good look @ Hapara workspace - how to set them up - and a bit of an explore.
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Looking back @ Lockdown :
What are you proud of? Proud of the students. They showed up!!! That was so cool - it was great
to see them.
What do you regret? I feel regret for the kids that their youth years are turning out so different
than my own youth years - we had more freedom.
What have you taken forward into the new era of schooling? That digital learning really does
act as an instrument for equity. My classes have all achieved at the same
level as pre lockdown days - thanks to online learning.
Nga Mihi Nui
Kia ora Julie,
ReplyDeleteAren't those Hāpara Workspaces in the discover space so awesome! Always great to be able to start from someone else's mahi and then make it your own! I'd love to be able to take a wee peak at the workspace you were creating in the afternoon - how did you find making your own?
Vicki
Hey Vicki - thanks for your feedback. Still working on my workspace- I am learning heaps throughout the course and plan to revisit the learning as I get time once we are through the busy end of year finish up. I want to focus on sites and the Hapara workspaces in particular. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteHi Julie
ReplyDeleteHaving to take teaching and learning into the online space during lockdown has been a real game changer for education. I know I've learned a lot from the experience and there's still so much more we could develop. For me it redefines what school looks like and poses a number of questions, particularly around being more flexible. For example, does school have to be 5 days a week from 9 - 3? I know a lot of schools are changing their timetable to suit their students learning preferences. You would have heard Edith Painting-Davis talk about how they have adapted their school day based on student feedback at the Secondary Connects - Lockdown Learning last week.
I have a feeling we'll be revisiting lockdown learning again next year as we continue to battle against the pandemic, and I'm sure each time we do enter virtual learning we'll get better at it.
Isn't Hapara a great tool to have in your kete. I'm looking forward to seeing how your workspace turns out, just remember to embed it back into your site;)
Kia Ora Kerry - thanks for the comment - yep, lockdown learning was a compulsory upskill for me - just as well the students are so patient and (to be honest a little amused at my efforts along the way. I agree re the working week - all the signs are there for a big shift. I personally can't wait. The work/life balance needs adjusting all round.
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