Enabling Access- Sites

  Today's highlight was  Pedagogy and Kaupapa: Connected

I got to understand about a new word  Rangitāmiro that refers to 'being connected' at school, nation and to the world as well. Dorothy talked about Manaiakalani cluster that kept on growing as more and more people were connecting. She mentioned shared language was the strength of the connection between people that celebrate the differences and diversity. learn create share and connecting with each other. She talked about different opportunities that was provided to the teachers to support their learning in classroom for example DFI. Really important part was to maintain a network between teachers and learners. Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu empowers young people to be cybersmart and encouraging them to write quality blog and giving feedback . Stay connected to professional learning networks by blogging and staff meetings where teachers share their professional enquiries in groups. So that we as teachers got Idea about what strategies other teachers are using.

Leading learning using google sites: connect with pedagogy and kaupapa. Blogging is a highly important tool for encouraging the kids to write and connect share and create. Visibility for teaching and learning to learns and their wahanu. Benefits of the sites was for the engagement of learner and teaching conversation to those students who needs more help. cognitive challenge, scaffolding text for the students who needs more information and to accelerate their learning.

Sites are the visible space for one stop hub for learning. Providing multiple opportunities for visible planning and teaching handy during lockdown situation. Provide consistency to all of the age groups.

I had seen other people sites and gather some ideas that I can implement and improve my site. I like one teacher idea of putting the link of workspace to a particular task that they need to do. By clicking on that task that link navigate the learners to their task.

We worked in our bubble groups and explored each other sites that was an amazing experience for me to grab some more ideas to implement.

I created my page on acid and base based on multimodal text for today's session.

Collaborative teaching and learning: building sites (Day-5 )

Today's session was started with Karakia, followed by connecting with each other. Dorothy talked about the Pedagogy and Kaupapa about visible teaching and learning.

Kaupapa is about making teaching and learning visible. Dorothy mentioned that the intentional use of technology was a game changer for visible learning journey for the learners. Manaiakalani program of using google sites by the teacher is promoting learning that is replacing old school stuffs e.g. usage of books and printouts . She also talked about class sites that was very helpful for the students. Hapara is designed for visibility for the teachers and learners so that any barrier is removed. Digital technology has been becoming a part of learning and it is removing barrier in the learning journey. I really like the Idea about that the visibility is really important in teaching and learning.

Hapara hot tip for today was highlights and help the students to do guided browsing. 

Deep dive in to Multi Modal Text:

We want to hook our learners to their learnings and connecting and interacting with each other. Different modes of communication highlighted by the Manaiakalani program to getting learner to personalized learning, empowering them, and engage them in their learning.

Changing the way of presenting the text and task and to make more interactive by adding more pictures and videos. It will really help the learners to be on task 

We had a discussion about the multimodal sites and talked about multi text data base. Main parts of the texts are main text, complementary text, scaffolding text to provides extra support, supporting students to engage , challenging text for giving more information. learners selected text as well. We can use different video text infographics for the use of multimodal in the classroom to engage the students.

T-shaped literacy provide wide reading opportunities to the learns so that they can find relevant information and connect with the previous knowledge. It is providing the learners the opportunities to become independent learners. I learned to use Padlet and we created a Multi Modal task planning that I found really helpful. I am going to use Padlet for collaboration and enhance literacy in teaching and learning.

                                 Click here to see the multi Model site that I created in today's session.