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Monday, September 14, 2020

Final DFI Session

 Google Educator Level 1 exam.....done! That was an exercise in patience and problem solving. Highlighted aspects of google that I thought I had mastered but will need to go back and revisit.. e.g google classroom. This makes one stop and reflect on how we assess our students...exams, pre/post tests etc, nice to know that this is just one very small tool used to take snapshots of our students learning. 😎

What a great learning journey this has been personally and I am very grateful for the opportunity to be able to upskill and build on prior knowledge, collaborate with a wide variety of educators from New Entrant to High School and to connect with other educators from across the spectrum. Viewing and responding to blogs as well as websites has inspired and activated positive change in my teaching practice. My goal is to have more rewindable learning in maths and literacy up on the Hub website as well as making the learning visible, I share my visuals and clips with the class, next step is to put this onto the website. 

Not sure where I will go from here except to consolidate my learning thus far through to the end of the year and look at some other options to further my skills i.e apple learning centre or Hapara Champion


Monday, September 7, 2020

Computational Thinking

 This final DFI session focussed on the new Digital Technologies in particular computational thinking. This was very timely as part of our school P.D has been to work with the facilitators of the new Digital Technologies Curriculum aligning the new curriculum to our hub inquiry and learning programmes. As part of this, we are investigating using Minecraft Educational to use term 4 as part of our building relationships focus. I found the conversation around the ethics and morals of digital technologies very interesting, the spotlight being put on our biases, known or otherwise when designing programmes. 

The chance to rewind learning over the last 7 weeks of intensive learning highlighted what I need to revisit and where I have 'mastered' certain aspects of this portion of the DFI.

Had fun with the minecraft coding practice, so getting my head around that. Scratch was just that...scratching my head, will need lots more time to get the hang of this. So much to learn and time poor.