External Recognition : Day 9

Today was the last day of the DFI. Time just flew away! I really enjoyed all the sessions and learnt a lot. Sometimes I felt overwhelmed by the content and the knowledge that was shared with us. However, I learnt something new from each session that I could implement and apply in the teaching and learning. DFI has been providing an amazing platform for the teachers to get connected, learn, create and share. By attending DFI session, I feel more empowered and digitally fluent. I know I need to work on some of the tools to enhance my digital skills and brush up the things and in that case rewindable learning would be really helpful:). Today I came to know about  lots of opportunities for the teachers which are provided by Manaiakalani programme. We were added to DFI alumni group so that we could remain connected to each other. 

 "Visible teaching as inquiry" is to use the blogs to share our professional learning that we are doing in the class. Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers and Google Classroom on Air provide opportunities for the educators to connect and share. Technology is a boon that has been providing various opportunities for the teacher and learners to come together and share. Digitally fluency has been a demand of the new world as all of us passed through the pandemic like Covid (when we were online teaching and connecting with the students to promote learning).

Today was the astounding day for me as I got my Google Level 1 certification. I would like to thank my facilitators for the sessions they took and for their efforts to have me equipped with DFI tool. I would love to add more badges to my account. So I will continue my Digital fluency journey to learn more tools.

Day 8- Computational Thinking

Today was the 8th day of DFI session I was ready and excited to embrace new learning through out the day. Session was started with Karakia followed by connecting with each other. Everyone shared about what worked from the last week learning and what were  the challenges that we had.  

Empowered:  Dorothy talked about being empowered. How to empower our whanau so that they can thrive in the changing world ? The idea of being empowered is being good in academic and excel. The concept of empowerment by the Manaiakalani program for the learner to provide education, good teaching resources, good health care system, better  schools. Low socio economic families will be disempowered and the choices will be taken away. Household income, occupation by the education they have, household crowding, income support create the range of decile system in the NZ school system. So there is the inequality in the education system that we could see in the decile system.

Education had been the best tool that could empower people to get what ever they want in life. Empowerment of language and complex conversation on different situations made them more confident as learners and creators.. Digital technology is an important tool in helping the people to get empowered. 

Equitable digital operating services: This service is being provided to the Manaiakalani schools with no cost internet and tech support for the unconnected household with children.

No one feels empowered if that person is not connected and main idea was on ubiquitous learning.

Future of tech: Technology has been changing day by day as new inventions and discoveries are keep on coming day by day. Some technical advancements are good and some are bad. Technology has been replacing the people as the robots are performing human tasks so, in the future I feel with the more advancement it will impact the jobs in future and people have to find another ways to be in the competition. 

Digital Fluency and Digital technology: 

Manaiakalani program outreach helping the teachers to be digitally fluent required for effective teaching planning assessments. By attending DFI sessions, I feel that I have become more confident digitally that could help in this digital learning environment. Digitally fluent students became more independent in their learning and they could create rather then only being consumer of the technology.

Digital technology Curriculum I feel that was the vast topic to cover and lots of the things were new to me. We were given time to explore that content for the better understanding.  For computational thinking there were programming fundamentals and elements of programming. 

I learned about different coding platforms like Minecraft, Scratch pad Jr. I have never used those and were completely new to me. We were given time to explore that in our bubble groups which I felt was quite overwhelming for me. 
In the create session I made a whare by using Tinkercad. That was an amazing interactive session in which everyone created their whare. I really enjoyed a lot creating new stuff by using Tinkercad.