DFI Session 1 - Core Business

Digital

Agenda for Session 1

Manaiakalani

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

• Origins is from Samoa (Hawaii) Looking at Manaiakalani as a tool to help and enhance your teaching.
• It can be used on multiple devices e.g. Iphone, laptop, IPads etc - Namely it is a pencil.
• Aim is to ENGAGE, ENGAGE, ENGAGE

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

• Has helped me to streamline planning and filing documents/folders for future use
• Rather than use Team Drive - use 'My Drive', put in folders and use the search engine to locate documents
• Understanding of Google Groups - love the choice of 'send daily summaries' at a specific time
• Understanding different terminology when using Google Docs
• Using the Explore tool - the fact that it is a legal tool, hence great search engine for children to use.
• Resources, documents and planning potentially easier to find and to use later without endless searching or redoing.
• Very easy to share to make it more collaborative between our Junior Syndicate.
• The Scavenger Hunt activity was a good example of exploring google docs.
• Looking through other peoples' blogs, google doc creations, learn create share examples with links was good to get different ideas.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

• Voice to text 
• Incorporating it in Reading groups - such as voice to text to check fluency and how a particular child is reading,
• ESOL children matching words with pictures

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

• The new skills taught, will definitely help me become more efficient in planning.
• This will on-flow to allow more family and partaking in activities that I enjoy such as gym, cycling etc.

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