Wednesday, August 26, 2020

DFI Week5 Collaborative

Manaiakalani

Collaborative Teaching and Learning

Today we started with Dorothy sharing with us what VISIBLE learning looks like.  The main idea is that teaching and learning should be visible to teachers and learners. Dorothy spoke about children in the past failing at school due to the learning journey being hidden from them.  I think back to my school years - where I would just receive a comment like "well done - good work "- I was a student that could not read the teacher's mind and therefore struggled with what understanding what was expected of me.  Thank goodness we have a new path to learning.  We need to look around our classrooms and ask ourselves - can we see what is being taught and can we see what is being learnt?  also, ask yourself, is the teaching/learning visible to both teacher and student, and is it visible to the family/whanau/caregivers?  

Make rewindable learning available by using videos, images, texts from various books and websites that support the main idea.   It is all about hooking in our learners. 

Multi-Modal - This is about engaging 'the hook' - learning/ teaching online.   The Manaiakalani Programme is: 

  •  Motivating our learners so they stay engaged in the curriculum especially the secondary students where the prospect of leaning is less appealing - create an inviting window for our learners - a window that they will want to stop and look in and then browse around (just how we see an interesting shop window display that invites us in). 
  • We need to keep developing the Class site and keep the learning fresh and relevant each year.  Make it bright and interesting so the learners want to stay in and learn.
  • Establish authentic audience learning outcomes empowering our learners with the belief that their personal voice is very valuable and powerful.  
  • Important to remember though - what works for some learners may not work for others
  • Different perspectives and points of view
  • Modes: use different 'types of texts - written-audio and visual

T Shaped Literacy

This is new to me - (I don't recall having heard of it) - The T represents Wide and Deep - this involves using a wide variety of text types and the Deep is delving deep into the text!
Dave said to us:
Reading is faster than listening 
Reading doesn't create noise

Multi-text Database example:



The assumption here is the Main text is a written text.  It would be helpful if the other texts were from videos, animation, podcast, infographics, photos, websites, cartoons, quiz or games
Definitions:
Multi- textual = The learner is presented with a variety of texts to read, watch or view. one of complementary, scaffolding, challenging the learner 
Multi-Modal = The learner is presented with a variety of texts using a variety of modes including video, animation, audio, podcast, infographic, photos, website or cartoon

CREATE

Google Site

Today the Create session was about Google Sites, another first for me.  We set off into our bubble groups and learned about using a Multi-text database, our theme is Greedy Cat.  The process was very exciting and I loved the challenge of finding texts to suit our learning.  Latham went through the process of how to set out our site.  This was a fun session creating our page and choosing our texts.  My site still requires some more finishing touches and no doubt as I progress and learn more - there will be changes!   Here is the link to my site.

Reminder: 
When linking pages to your home page remember to open the preview of the page you are linking.  (check you are not giving editing access to your viewers) also when sharing the link to your site - make sure you open the preview and then copy URL - (need to check up on this -as I have written down as important notes - check with Vicki to see if I have done my site right!!)
(Vicki showed us how to make buttons using google drawing/themes.  I still need more time and practice to get the buttons right.)

My reflection on today

I thoroughly enjoyed the DFI course today - maybe it was because we had more time to be creative and I am also feeling more comfortable and confident in my new learning environment.




2 comments:

  1. You have learnt so much on this DFI PG Lyn and it's great that you are keeping all your notes on your professional blog so they are easy to locate. T shaped literacy is so successful with our learners so I'm so pleased to see you have now been exposed to this and I hope to see how you are using it in your teaching.
    Nicola

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  2. Lyn, it's so great to see you feeling so much more confident in your own learning journey. I love reading your posts to see what has connected with you, and making those connections between your own schooling and the support you now give students is so powerful. I'd love to take a look at the site you were building this week. I'm sure it will be really useful for the students and teachers you work with.
    Vicki

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