I know I have writing a fair bit about the pedagogical, or teacher talk, aspects (the hows and whys) of becoming more openly visible with our learning in class moving beyond the walls of the classroom, or "flattening the walls of the classroom" to use an early 2000s term. It has helped me to relay my thinking, my questions, concerns and observations. I hope I model that for students too - to learn well is to grapple with it all. Thank you for including this in the DFI days.
This week's kaupapa has focused on the EMPOWERED aspect of our new and improved "Ubiquitous Hybrid Learning" model. Now in 2022, we forget perhaps how much our devices, our TOOL actually enables us to do more, better, faster, and sometimes opens doors and creative critical thinking beyond our expectations. That is not to devalue all our other learning, at home, in nature, social and otherwise, but is to say in our modern day world we need to remember these devices do offer opportunity to connect globally, create and share widely, enable access for so many, empower individuals and communities. This includes teachers. Sure... you've got my "buy-in."
In every school staffroom, there are the "luddites" timid or slower to learn and /or adapt to the many devices and tools we are asked to become familiar with, there are the teachers who hesitate, because maybe they did not sign up to teach online - just teach kids, or the "tech savvy" or "early adopters" who may be intimidating without even knowing it. We need to help each other let go of such "old school" terms, to enable each other to become empowered in their own way, on their own timetable and with support. Just as we do with students - DFI helps us do that. DFI Starts where we may have experience already, email, drive, etc,...
.....and then.....
Ends with COMPUTATIONAL THINKING!
Ok... this was my 1970's wish for today! This year, George Jetson is being born....Crazy!
And this is where we are today...
I am not going to lie, today's deep dive made me feel extra old and amazed too at the power and creativity of people everywhere.
Today made me realise how much I have seen in my shorter time and how much I really need to embrace teaching and learning the bigger skills or competencies - some call soft skills (communication, critical and creative thinking, literacy, numeracy, collaboration, ...). I loved exploring our Deep Dive Presentation today - thank you! here it is for you to enjoy and revisit: Deep Dive - the Future of Tech
I also do struggle with ethical dilemmas that technology proposes at times. This simulation provides some interesting practice to consider moral quandries. Check out the Moral Machine.
On an aside - reflecting...
This past week - the Queen has also passed. After 70 years of service, 96 years of age, she has seen and done a lot. I reflect on how far she and women have come in leadership. I also struggle to reconcile that with how some are still fighting for equitable treatment across the globe. Education is empowering - gives people voice and choice. Devices are an important part of continuing to bring that equity, access and empowerment across gender, race, culture, socioeconomic situation or geography.
Create Time:
I enjoyed learning to play with Minecaft, and making little animals dance to music. I enjoyed making my poem come alive with some animation (I can't find it at the moment but will look that up again. Maybe someone can remind me where that is?) The Exploring Coding and Computational Thinking was fun and frustrating at the same time. I am definitely of the generation that needs more time to play.
My biggest frustration came with this simple dot coding game - the English teacher in me is still disagreeing with some of the coding language. I need to work on this more. Give it a go - click on the image or if that does not work try here See if you agree with me!
Thank you very much for the opportunities to share, learn, struggle alongside a wonderful group of educators and with a very patient, helpful team of facilitators. Kind, encouraging and optimistic even when we challenged you. I am glad you challenged me too! I don't want to miss anyone on the Manaiakalani team as I know there are so many of you working behind the scenes, infront of us online and in person, in our schools and beyond. Such a great program - happy I could take part.
Update: 21/9/2022
Found a screenshot of my animating my poem - not as ideal as being able to run it, but still evidence of playing and coding. Baby steps are still steps :)
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