Week 9

Final week of DFI

It's been an amazing journey thats enlightened me with new knowledge and skills I can apply to all areas of my life especially teaching. It was great meeting educators from around Auckland and sharing our learning experiences, knowledge and resources.
Alongside the DFI PD, we were working on attaining skills to sit the Google Level 1 educator exam.
In preparation of the exam I went through a checklist and practised the skills. Later I sat unit reviews to test my understanding through Google for Education. This I found very useful as it helped consolidate my learning. Really excited to share, with all the hard work and effort I can now say I'm a Certified Educator level 1. Thank you Manaiakalani for making this happen.

Thanks to Gerhard and Dorothy for presenting the course! You have been very helpful and supportive. I have learnt many skills and strategies that I can apply. One of things I was amazed by what we can do on Google Sheets. I don't use google sheets often and if I did it was for really simple things. This course has allowed me to organise data and view results. Another one was Google Form, thinking about ways of how I could collect data and view results on Google Sheets. I found this interesting as we looked at ways we could integrate this into our classroom programs. A way I use Google Docs, Google Forms and Google Sheets is a really easy to integrate in my Reading tumble. Using Google Sheets I set the instructions e.g. Child needs to read a book. Then the child fills out a form to review the book. Using the data from forms, you can review the data and read all the children's book review.

In relation to Kaupapa and Pedagogy we looked at

Ubiquitous Learning
It's different from how learning use to be
In the past more learning happened at school.
Not a lot of academic learning is not happening outside of school
In a school term → learning accelerates and drops over summer
Summer learning keeps the momentum going
Harnessing the power of digital tech and scaffolding children's learning outside school hours.

Manaiakalani provides this opportunity for students to continue their learning via the Summer Learning journey. Children blog in the holidays whilst being Cybersmart.


Woohoo that's a wrap for DFI Auckland Cohort 2019.