Education going forward

DFI 9 Revision.

Well the DFI programme has finished today but the digital journey will continue with enhanced skills and understanding of Manaiankalani.

Today we covered ubiquitous, probably never before in education has the need been so great in this time of our nations lockdown.

The last 7 weeks has truly proven the value of this, our pupils have had opportunity to genuinely choose where and when they studied, this is empowering agency for them, and also for the teachers to see how a new normal could look like.

Educators now have the chance to adapt and incorporate the online environment and skills both in the classroom and beyond.

At NBC we have already started having this conversation with our teachers, what we have learnt and will continue but one positive now is that we know we have the community with us as they have witnessed first a hand the power of Manaiakalani pedagogy.

 The ability to rewind learning was one aspect that wasn’t explored enough in the classroom, with teachers having to remove barriers to learning  online through many means  it enabled more visibility with the documentation  enabling rewindable learning to seamlessly happen.

So what am I proud of?

·      The whole staff, not just teachers but also the teachers aides, and the ancillary staff who were quickly added to our system to allow them access to pupils’ learning on line, another barrier gone! And everyones confidence and skill level rising above all expectations.

·      The consistent approach through out the school, that daily that gave students and whanau sense of continuity.

·      The relationships that were kept nurtured on line with daily meets , which hopefully will enable a smoother transition back on Monday in level 2.

The challenges now:

·      To keep the momentum going of learn create share.

·      To capture all the positives and apply them.

·      In the light of our experiences to explore Manaiakalani pedagogy with renewed clarity.

   

 Succinctly summed up below

A huge shout out to the Manaiakalani Team and especailly Mark and Sharon, who have not only supported me during the DFI but all the NBC staff  on our digital journey together with all the extra support during lockdown. Thank you.  

DFI 8 Empowerment

DFI 8 Computational Thinking

I love the strength of the word "empowered", and the reason why Manaiakalani chose it over the word “agency” for those who community many have a negagtive contitation towards  the word, is thought provoking.

In communities where they are disempowerment over everyday basics of housing, money, food giving back through empowerment is pivital to their lives.

A stong  message behind  device use  is that its not just a tool but a way of transformig the learning experience and lives of students and whanau.

A video that I viewed through  the Manaiankanlai  site, showed how a boy through  using his device helped his dad get employment, I realised that day that we are giving the gift of Rangatiratanga,  so well said by  Pat Sneddon in his quote below.

Following on from this was another statement  that resonated with me today ,   we want our tamariki to be  creative directors instead of passive consumers.

 Enabling our teachers to be digitially fluent which  leads to digital fluent students,   is a believe of  Manaiakalani  which is evident  through MKO's strongly, developed digital fluency programme, which they  support their MKO  schools so generously with, with   faciliatiors and  teacher release.

 Today  through  exploring The New Digital Technologies Curriculum, the rational behind Digital Computational  thinking and Design and developing  for educational outcome  becme clear when its set in the framework above.

 The links and resoucered to gain further understanding I found valuable were

https://rarangamatihiko.com/  and  https://kiatakatu.ac.nz/  

I will be unpacking these with my staff when things return to the new normal!

The alignment with the cybersmart curriculum will show the staff that it's not another add on but one they have already being implementing , knowing this connection will increase their awareness and need of this aspect of the technology curriculum.

Lastly today I dabbled with Mindcraft, a first for me! I can see the appealing hook of some of the coding apps but I also realised that you do not necessarily need to use a device to start computational thinking, so lets start!

DFI 7 MKO at NBC

I always find the Manaiakalani journey fascinating and an important one to know,

as it gives a foundation to why we took this pathway of learning at our school.

I hadn’t made treaty connection of Partnership, Participation and Protection before, so I will use this as a great introduction for parent and Whanua meetings each year.

Partnership brings a sense of belonging to the journey,

Participation gives us a clear way forward about the pathway and the why we need device ownership
Protection is the behind the scenes tools that gives our whanua and parents the security they want to see and know about in this cyber world.

Basically the what, the why, the how of Manaiakalani.

To enable our children to be  good  digital citizens we must  empower our learners  to  be confident decision makers.

Consistency of, programme implementation, at every level of the school, along with known language and deliberate teaching are all vital for this to occur.

The cyber smart curriculum must be programmed into your yearly plan and have links into weekly / unit planning to ensure that deliberate teaching takes place, at least once a week when children get their device and then recapped each year.

There are 12 categories in the cyber smart suite but the 3 below are the key ones to be to taught yearly

                

The importance of consistency of language needs to be reinforced across the school: right place, right choice, right time and positive, thoughtful, helpful are to be seen and heard in every learning space.

By giving a child the skills to harness a device and empowering them with positive on line behaviour they will be  confident, connected lifelong learners who can be ubiquitous in their learning.I liked the question if  “I google you in 10 years time will you be happy?” we have succeeded in ensuring our children have digital citizen ship if they can answer, ”yes”.

So for me my review questions  for NBC are

Are we  visual in the what, why, how of our Manaiakalani journey?

Does our yearly curriculum document explicitly state the cybersmart categories to be covered?

Is our Manaiakalani programme robust enough, in pedodagy and practice?
Are we being proactive enough with our whanau and parent education?