What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani pedagogy?
On create - Enjoyed Dorothy Burt's kōrero. The learning space needs to have readily available and accessible tools and resources to enable students to BE and GET creative and that it's in the 'creating' processes that the knowledge is embedded. Reflecting on myself as a learner - I need my hands to be building, making and doing as much as my brain is thinking and visualising.
On Google Draw - What a great creative tool. I can imagine how advanced and complex learner's creations can be once they've mastered how to use the drawing tools, and where to access what they need. I'm wondering if my arty boys would swap out a pen and pad for a keyboard and screen. I checked out the fantastic Google Draw art ideas, by Nyjah, Jack and Alex of Panmure. Very inspiring indeed. Thank you Dave for your presentation. I'll get my students to do some drawing and I might even try those templates that Floyd Pahi suggested.
On Youtube - Student's should NOT have youtube channels. Roughly 6 years ago (when I was none the wiser and was exploring everything and anything alongside my 7&8s, I had them create a gmail. I only had 11 students at the time so I took the opportunity given my numbers were next to nil compared to my colleagues. I liked the idea of a channel, because I wanted them to share creations with their families and the rest of the school. I hadn't realised that my access and and monitoring power was zero, I let them upload recordings of all types of curriculum learning, and it wasn't until one of my students received her first dislike, that I'd realised, there's a whole layer of teaching and learning around those 'what if someone gives me a thumbs down?' type questions, and the nasty or disheartening type threads that pop up.
On Google Slides - G-Slides we call them in our class. We love them. We really only use G-docs for word-processing as Dian mentioned in our little bubble. We've not quite moved on from making our slides all pretty as my students like to do. I don't mind so long as I'm not bombarded with text and the message can be punched out by the title a few bullets points. The bonus is obviously when students can elaborate on content closed their presentations feeling proud they've their purpose was achieved. I love tabs that say 'insert.' And yes Dorothy Burt, so much more that just a slide show.
