DFI - Day 8

 

Day 8

Chalk 'n Talk - Kerry (via Meet)

Computational Thinking

Digital fluent - comfortable and confident teaching online and taking it to another level - to know what to use and how to use it. Delivering effective teaching - When and why we use digital 

Digital Technology - can create new digital solutions.

• Teaching with digit is a collaborative environment with you as the teacher and the students.

• Programming so the students are designers.

• Rather than calling it coding change the word to programming - it widens the expectation of what the student thinks they can do or are capable of doing.
  
  
  

Empowered - Dorothy

• Money doesn't buy you happiness but it does buy you power
• The average wage for our local area is $19,000 p/a
• Technology is a tool BUT not just a tool - this is where the empowerment come from.
• Reflection is key when ensuring the work shared with the students is not only entertaining to keep their attention but also empowers them - this in return empowers you the teacher digitally.
• 5+ backwards and forwards conversation teaching the framework to increase their oral language - this also works in blogging (writing) to support them by harnessing the conversation in blogging. 

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• We all have a different ending to what empowering students is.

A recent example of empowerment is of a year 8 student in my maths group who came up to me when she had finished her work and said "thank you for making me smart Mrs Fisi'iahi".  She had been working on multiplication and understood the strategies she had been learning.  This had empowered her to the point where she was helping her peers with their learning of the strategies, therefore she in turn was empowering others.

Deep Dive - The Future of Tech - Jacob

• Will robots replace jobs or will they enable more creativity?
• We as educators are preparing our students for future jobs that don't currently exist yet.
• preparing students for a constantly changing future
• the need to upskill and become lifelong learners
• Moral dilemmas are might be a large challenge for future technology practices

Scratch 

• All jumping around characters are called sprites
• backgrounds are called stage
• movement is called motion
• game needs to start this is called an event
• operators are when we join things together eg do this and that will happen
• variables are something that holds numbers - things that can change