Weekly Reflection 3

DFI Week 3

Reflection 3

This weeks session was based around 'create' and this is an important part of the learning for us as kaiako, especially for our tamariki.  To use the quote by Dorothy Burt "Creativity Empowers Learners" as a compacted explanation pretty much sums up the importance of create in three words.  This is what we are aiming to acheive with our learners by teaching them the skills to accomplish just that, we want their creativity to empower them in their learning and we want them to recognize they have the power to achieve their goals on their learning journey.  

Everything we are doing in this DFI course is improving my confidence, being given the chance to be scaffolded through an unfamiliar and sometimes scary digital world has been a blessing.  The benefits this course creates for kaiako like myself, who are a bit technologically challenged is a gift, it's a gift that will get payed forward to our tamariki.  

Manaiakalani have opened up a whole new world of learning for us and they have given us the respect and knowledge to benefit in our learning which in turn benefits our students learning.  This is something to be grateful for and I am excited albeit nervous still at times, to embrace the learning challenges myself before I expect my students to.  My students are so awesome though and even though they are just starting their digital learning journey, they definitely show me a thing or two, which they love to do by the way.

Personally, whatever is improving my confidence in my professional capability and workflow influences the same things in my personal life, so it's a win, win for me.

I'm definitely into taking the deep dive with Kerry about media into my classroom for my learners.  Setting up a media kit for my learners is going to be great and so much fun for my tamariki.  I'm already looking into trying to get some old phones off friends to start making up the kits.

My takeaway for my learners this week is as above, media kits but I am also looking forward to using google draw with my learners.  The google slides session was very helpful as this will benefit the move into digital learning for my tamariki when they are fully digital.  I hope to give them a start on using the slides to access mahi in their group work etc.

I am going to attempt to embed a video I watched with Dorothy Burt talking about the Manaiakalani Programme.  I found it after writing my blog, funnily enough, she talks about the importance of  the learning journey not only for our tamariki but for our kaiako.