DFI Day 3 Media

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

Today was a reminder how important creativity is in a child's learning and cognitive development. Some times as educators we are focused on a destination and forget the journey, especially if there is no quantitative measurement or result. I remember being a primary teacher and having whole days of Art or Science. There's no reason why our secondary schools cannot adapt to our recent online distance learning experiences and morph into something different. Do students really need to 5 days a week onsite to learn or could they continue to learn from home?

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

I have only being using about 20% of the potential most of these platforms offer and the capacity of these media to be less annoying and more engaging just by following some basic presentation rules

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

Today there were lots of explicit tasks. I could furnish them with a range of media tasks and provide some of the extensions that I discovered today to encourage them to use a range of media to create docs/slides/movies/drawings to demonstrate their learning and share to with others. I tried to make a cartoon version of a student but she was not impressed because she looks like a man and the ear colour is not right

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

I have learned to simplify things that I have been doing the 'hard' way. I have also not been checking settings on my emails, youtube and blogger but now I know why I do or do not receive information. Another great week with an awesome group of presenters and leaders!