Today's Agenda : Devices - Day 7

 Today's focus was on devices like Chromebook and iPad that our young people used in the school. Ubiquitous word was one of the Kaupapa word that holds the learning and barriers being removed. Dorothy talked about distance learning or hybrid learning and the power of ubiquitous learning. That was the effective teaching practice designed for high practice learning. 

Now we have technology in the hands of our young people. So, in the extreme circumstances in case of any pandemic they can be confident and they could lift their learning by using class website and the workspace.

Idea of rewindable learning by using different tools is really amazing that helped students  in their learning. The idea of learning anywhere 'Living local and learning global'. Removing the barrier in the learning as they can  change the  pace of the video by pausing, rewinding, putting subtitles and slow down to learn on their own pace. By that way of learning young people can learn from anyone at any place and anywhere in the world.

Setting up summer learning journey by Manaiakalani for encouraging and participation of the more learners. So that their results continue to accelerates as their learning.

Cybersmart:  This is embedded  in  Manaiakalani goals of learn create and share. Being cybersmart, using powerful positive language and empowering our learners as connected and confident decision makers. Cybersmart word came from Australian govt. and used for empowering learners and keeping them safe. How the learners became  positive and successful digital citizens?

That approach was bases on future focused learning and connected communities. Cybersmart and role of the schools by filtering the sites that can be used in classroom and appropriate for the learners. Set up of the positive, thoughtful and helpful language for making our learner more powerful. There are some google themes that mirror the Manaiakalani Kaupapa.

Three key areas that are smart learners( learn) smart footprint (create), smart relationship(Share)

So being cybersmart the learners could be confident connected actively, involved and life long learners. Writing blogs by the learns made them more confident in connecting with each other.  Getting feedback and comment from the people they don't know made them more confident and connected to the world.

Hapara hot tip: To do list shows the students what they need to complete before due date:)

We were given time to explore the keys of Chromebook in our Digital Dig session. That was really helpful and I found it was really interesting. I learnt different shortcut keys to work smartly:)

Rewindable Learning: We have different options for the rewindable learning. There are different ways to capture the screen e.g. by using Screencastify , Quick time for Mac users, and  Screencast for chrome users. We were given time to explore Screencastify that was a chrome extension and used to record, edit and share the videos.  That was indeed an amazing tool that can be used to enhance learning. Overall, today's session was interactive and with lots of learning.