Digital Fluency Intensive Collaborate- Sites

Visible - one of the 4 Kaupapa that Manaiakalani believes in.

Key question - Can your eyes see (with your eyes) the learning?

Key Points

Historically: 

• Many of our Whanau haven't had the best experience with school and learning because it wasn't visible. 
• Many teachers told the student what to DO,(page 23 today) not what they were learning. A big difference when helping a student to be successful. 

• Many students failed because they couldn't read the teachers mind to know what to learn and what was going to be learnt.

Nowadays:

• We know that to support our students to succeed we need to make all learning visible and that there are no surprises. 

• Teacher Dashboard is a great device to support this in a digital environment. 

Check out these teachers sharing their teaching and learning.

Multi-Modal -what do we mean when we use this term?

An inclusive, differentiated approach to teaching in a digital learning environment.

Behavioural engagement first, then cognitive engagement:

Behavioural - The HOOK

• differentiation for personalisation
• mind frame for learning
• engaging C21st tools (Chromebooks / iPads)
• creating to learn (learning to create)
• authentic audience (sharing on blogs - realising the value of own voice, growing agency over information and knowledge)

Cognitive:

• ready to learn
• ready for the cognitive challenge
• ready for acceleration...

Think about how you share the learning with your students. 

Class Site Key ideas

• plan the layout before you start
• ask yourself - who is the audience? 
  
• can they get to their learning within 3 clicks?
• drop down menus are not student friendly - use buttons instead.
• how can you make your site multi-modal? 
• use a range of texts, videos and images - all at different levels.
• make their learning path open. They can choose what to investigate first. 
• use a page of your site or embed a Google drawing

Made by my neighbour Cam. A great way to engage your learners. Click on each image to find the learning. Thanks for sharing.

• this is a great link to royalty free pictures!
• inserting a google form and its spreadsheet is a great way to get feedback on your site. 

Buttons

• use a Google Drawing. Designed to be downloaded as a png for Google site. 
• use images and shapes - Insert image - Crop image - Mask Image
• add text by double-clicking the shape or use a text box

Gerhard showed us how to make all your buttons in one drawing. This way they are all consistent. Here are some buttons I made today to refresh my class site with.

Today was an opportunity to refine what I already do in my classroom and on my class site. I am looking forward to making a few changes to my class site this weekend.