DFI WEEK 3: Media

Learn, CREATE, Share: 

Today Dorothy talked with us about 'create' and how important creating is apart of our own wellbeing.

There is no age limit to creativity 

I agreed with her that all children in early childhood, primary and secondary school should all be creating. Together as a class we shared together the things we had created in lockdown, it showed that even we are still actively creating whether it's baking, puzzles, art. 

"If we want creative thinking we have to do something with our hands, minds or bodies"

How do we get children to do this? 

I enjoyed this quote form Dorothy this morning as I think it is so important for children to engage with their learning. As teachers we need to do more not just have it in our plans we need to give them opportunities to engage and create.

"Creators of content not just consumers"

This is the goal for Manaiakalani to get children to create and by doing this will empower children's learning through:

• choice
• information/knowledge
• developing skills
• building capacity
• scaffolding

Chalk N Talk-Youtube, Channel, Playlists:

As educators Manaiakalani recommend that only teachers have a Youtube channel and not the children. Kerry also made a good point to embed videos into your site and to not share the video with children directly. The reasons for this are valid for example privacy, adds and child appropriate content. 

We learnt how to set up our own Youtube channel and made it suitable for teaching and learning. Here is the playlist I made for our junior cross country running practise.

Chalk N Talk: 

Deb took us through some quick tips of how to use Google Draw. I am lucky enough that with year 7 and 8's last year that we used this a lot for posters etc. I know from working with children that they LOVE using Google Draw and this is something that I want to work on and show the younger class how to use. 

Here is my two Google Drawing that I made for the class as we are looking at mapping, coding and positions and for my blog.

Chalk N Talk:

I feel confident using Google Slide as once again I have used this with the senior class before, it was a good reminder to use things like the explore tool to look for pictures and photos as in the past I have googled images. The explore tool is a fast way of finding photos and will be good to re show the children.

Create: 

I spend time on Google Slides doing a 'Pick a Path' this was so much fun and I'm surprised it took so long to make. However the feedback from others have said kids will find this so fun and really enjoy it.

Here it is please try it out but be aware it isn't finished yet.

Overall: I can see how I can step up creating with the kids particular the pick a path and google draw I know they will really enjoy creating on those. Time to try it out!