Visability

Digital Fluency Day 7


A lot of learning again and a real sense of stepping out of my comfort zone again.
The more I listen to the Manaiakalani journey the more excited I get about teaching.
We are now at a stage where we as a syndicate, are making our learning more visible for our children, digital technologies allows for that. Our next step is to entice our children's parents to come on board and see what the children are learning about. And I know exactly how to do this- every year we have a meeting for the future, new parents of the digital classes, where we explain how the children's learning will change. So now I am better equiped and will show them at this meeting how they can access thin new way of learning, showing them the class sites at the meeting and let them navigate the site for themselves.

It was quite nerve-wracking having our peers critiquing our class sites, exp when one knows that it is not something one is proud of. But the comments we received were really helpful and I also asked my children in the class what they thought about it and what the thought would make it more exciting to use. By empowering students I am hoping to have more buy in and excitement in the revamped class site. I also asked what they would prefer to use-  topic buttons or term buttons, topic buttons won so that is what we will use on our class site. Some children wanted the main photo changed as there were a few children absent on  the day I took the site photo and they were not represented so I have changed that too. The revamped site will go live on Monday 20 August.