DFI WEEK 5: Collaborate Sites

 

Visibility: 

We were joined by Dorothy this morning who talked to us about one of Manaiakalanis main pedagogy of 'visible' and that teaching and learning needs to be visible. Very simply it is either visible or it isn't there is no in between. Every part of the learning journey needs to visible for the learner. She made a valid point that children aren't mind readers and cannot know what we want them to learn.

Learning needs to be visible for:

• learners
• whanau
• colleagues 

Multi Modal:

Kerry talked to us this morning about the multi modal pedagogy. 

How does multi modal modes relate to teaching? We have to be able to cater to different learners and in ways they can understand and follow even if the teacher isn't there. 

There are four priority principles to this kaupapa:

• Engagement-the hook: making learners engaged and hooking them into the learning. We need to sell our love of learning. 
• Personalising- future focused teaching and learning relevant to the learner.
• Acceleration-having authentic learning and learning outcomes to accelerate learning.
• Empowerment- empowering learners that their voice and beliefs are important. 

Kerry made a valid point that our class site is a reflection of us and in theory a shop front window. It should reflect ourselves, our learners and be engaging and want students to hook in and dive further. From this I know that working on my site is something I can continue to do. 

I had time to explore multi modal sites and I must say that this has given me so many ideas. I can see that teachers have collaborated with planning and making resources. I like that there was a variety of online tools that children could use like Explain Everything, they had made specific tasks for each reader. This is something that I know I want to work towards doing I just feel like I need time to do it.

Google Sites 

Most of today's session was spent around planning and designing our own google site from scratch. This planning process allowed me to have time to organise what I want my learners to be able to access. In the real world of running a classroom/with multiple sites I am not sure if I would do a proper 'plan' as such but get stuck straight into it and plan as I go on sites. 

I played around using 'Jamboard' for my planning.

Here is the start of my site I created: