DFI - Session 7 - Devices

Agenda - 30-4- 2020

Notes from Session 7

My Reflections

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

• This session was about the kaupapa and pedagogy around Cybersafety and how we can teach our students to be cyber smart.  It is our jobs as teachers to empower our learners to be connected and confident decision makers in a digital world. Ideally Cybersafety should be a whole-school consistent programme approach.  Whilst the actual lesson may look different across the year levels, the content will basically stay the same to create consistency and give clear progressions.  Deliberate teaching is also important.  

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

• Hapara Teacher Dashboard - Purpose to make learning visible and enables the teacher/facilitator to view, comment and give feedback in a very organised way.
  It was good to get a background of how the Dashboard works however is not a tool that we use for our Juniors at Belfast School.  I can see the benefit for Teachers at Year 5-8 level.  
• Chromebooks - These are not used in the Junior school.  However, it was good to have a background of different functions that I was able to transfer to my own laptop. I enjoyed and gained more knowledge carrying out the activity on the Activity Dig that was set for us.  This included finding shortcut keys and different functions of the Chromebook.
• iPads - As a junior teacher this part of the day was very beneficial and has helped me know how to make iPads work effectively in my classroom and to set it up successfully in a classroom.  Good to have examples and to find out about the site - whiteboard.explain everything.  Great information for teaching Cybersafety to Juniors in this session. The video on setting up for success slide was very helpful for teaching children on the kawa / care for iPads.

Using some functions on the iPad: 

Click for - Task completed on actual iPad
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• Screencastify - At last I have made a screencastify, albeit basic.  (See my example below).  Thanks to Kelsey for some directing me to ways I can use in the Juniors.  
• Exploring Cybersmart areas - I found the following site beneficial to use in my classroom.  https://ipads.manaiakalani.org/

• Blogging - embedding screencastify video - Yahoo - I managed to complete this task as you can see below.  :)

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

• Being more aware about Cybersafety and to be cyber smart in my personal life. 

VERY FIRST ATTEMPT - of creating my own Screencastify:

Cyber-safety - Smart Learners