Using Different Devices

It's fantastic to start the morning with a chance to catch up with people in the group even if the conversation isn't all about digital its great to make connections.

Ubiquitous Learning 

Anytime, Anywhere, Any pace and from anyone

It is great that having 1:1 devices is a way of removing barriers so learning can take place in a ubiquitous way.  I'm seeing this with sick children still accessing the work from home or choosing to complete tasks at home so they can be more social in the class.  I like the idea of kids accessing other teacher's sites to get a different POV on the teaching, but it is important to ensure that all teachers are covering the same material.  This would possibly more appropriate for high school

I personally find having a site makes it much easier for relievers, and planning for relievers, as learners can carry on with normal programme as can access the learning.

It was interesting to hear that lower decile learners arrive at school hearing 30 000 000 less spoken words than high decile counterparts.

Lockdown learnings about ubiquitous learning

Things I am proud of - learners accessing site, rewindable with videos, multimodal, time management from kids

Things I regret -not more learners engaged, not doing fun themes for meetings, not insisting that some learners talk - they all ended up just typing responses in chat, some video links didn't work but I now know how to change sharing settings.

Things I Taken forward - more multimodal, greater knowledge of the learners and where they come from, importance of practicing how to get on google meets.

Being Cybersmart

Digital citizenship is critical so Manaiakalani had to find a curriculum to support Cybersmart, but there wan't much around so had to create their own. 

Key Messages about Cybersmart

Consistent with modelled appropriate and positive language and use.

A lot of tools are happening behind the scenes to ensure the learners can use their devices in a way they can be Cybersmart.

Google - Be internet awesome is a tool to explore

Use of positive language is important - Talking about what you do, not what you shouldn't do

Cybersmart curriculum can be tailored to our school from 10 different topics

Primary schools look at some of the same topics:

Smart learners - in this topic they understand and demonstrate smart use of device and looking after it like in the Kawa of Care, 

Smart footprint and Smart relationships this is about being kind, positive and helpful, making most of opportunities for learning, making whānau proud by being responsible learners, pass word safety and being aware of what is shared online.

The Cybersmart curriculum fits in with learn, create, share pedagogy.

Manaiakalani Journey

Partnership - with whānau and community, teachers to teachers, learners to teacher, learners to learners, knowing it is important and that the child is going to use it - it is a huge investment.  Kawa of Care needs to be a living document

Participation - so every learner is able to participate, all devices are the same and the teachers are empowered as well

Protection - lots happen behind the scene, teacher dashboard it a layer of this protection, protections also comes from n4l and linewize filtering

Digital fluency is about learners, teacher and whānau being able to use the device. digital dig helps with this.

Recording your Screen

Using Screencastify

This is a tool I have used a lot.  Some things to increase the usability of Screencastify are

pause button (really useful)

you can restart recording

you can change mouse pointer

you can draw and erase 

you can turn the webcam on and off throughout the recording using the camera icon on the toolbar.

make sure you name your screencast will save into google drive

you can get shareable link to send it

you can get embed code 

there is a 5 minute limit on the free version

You can record screen on i-pad - 

There is a video from Kelsey.  While the initial information that was shared said it would only record sound coming from the i-pad there is a way you can enable this.  To enable screen recording go through the control centre of the i-pad and press the green plus. Then it is available in the pull down menu from the top. You can turn microphone on by holding down the record screen icon and turning microphone on.

Using Learner Devices - I-pads

Manaiakalani has trialled other tablets, they are not just jumping on the apple bandwagon.

Before the Year Begins

-Have all i-pads set up the same at beginning of the year.  

-Sign in all accounts so the kids don't have to worry about knowing login, email address and password 

-Name i-pads and stylus.  

-Have thought through systems for getting, storing etc

With learners 

- start with Kawa of Care and safety video 

- teach whole class for a few weeks

- create explain everything on i-pad and upload it to drive then can use it on your slides and sites

- there is an i-pad support system set up on Manaiakalani site

- explain everything is what you use all the time and there is an Explain Everything Whiteboard available

Hāpara Hot Tips

Workspaces

You can see workspaces that have been made public by using discover

You can search for NZ curriculum and year/grade level.  

If you find a workspace you want you can copy the entire workspace

Using workspaces is an area I am not very familiar with I will have to look at the toolkit from earlier this term.

Create Time

We have now had the chance to create using the tools discussed to.  The first we used was Explain everything where we had set tasks to do.  Explain everything still isn't my favourite but it was less scary this time to use.

After that we could choose a create tool to talk through a lesson related to Cybersmart using Screencastify or Explain Everything.  I chose Screencastify and here are my results.

Blogger tips

I already have blog lists running in my class

Like the idea of putting in other Links list with class site and school site onto my class blog.

Once again another day of great learning.