DFI#5 Collaborate-Sites

He Wānanga Matatau Matihiko (DFI: Digital Fluency Intensive)

                                                       DFI#5 Collaborate-Sites

Visible teaching and learning-Dorothy

                          He kokonga whare e kitea, he kokonga ngākau e kore e kitea.

                  The corners of a house are visible; the corners of the heart are invisible.

From the original 4 goals developed in 2006- Ubiquitous, Visible, Empowered, Connected. This session focused on supporting visible teaching and learning through building collaborative, multimodal Google Sites.

Visible learning should be accessible, available, and in advance so there shouldn't be any surprises. The intention is to embrace the power of technology to make all teaching and learning visible for all. Only some elements of teacher learning need to be private-i.e health, teachers appraisal

Hidden learning and agenda, whilst some students may have the ability to navigate the teacher's mind and know what the teacher wants (cultural capital) and experience educational success. A number of students don't, Evidence suggests that the cultural capital passed on through families help children do better in school.

In their 2009 book Culture, Class, Distinction Bennet et al, describe this system of privilege:

"This is the reproduction circuit associated with schooling and formal education. Those parents equipped with cultural capital are able to drill their children in the cultural forms that predispose them to perform well in the educational system through their ability to handle “abstract” and “formal” categories. These children are able to turn their cultural capital into credentials, which can then be used to acquire advantaged positions themselves.’

Visible Learning and teaching make it equitable for all Hapara is the teachers visible one link, specifically designed for Manakalani schools

Kerry-Multi Modal

Enhance teaching and learning key words-engaging students into the screen and hooking them onto learning, empower students to be confident in navigating their site -the purpose is all about delivering communication from one person to another-take into account when designing a learning site. 

Different people have different modes of communication. designing a class site that is inclusive-caters for all, differentiates, caters for different learning styles, pace, and time-rewindable aspect to it. 

The concept of multimodal-engagement with learning, personalized to the learning, acceleration of learning, pedagogical based, empowering the student to give them the confidence to access learning, setting them up for life long journey

HOOK: Some students become disengaged from learning or the process of learning. Hook students in and captivate as there are so many other things that can distract them- films, games, social media with friends, online shopping. Make learners excited about their learning

Have to sell the love of learning-Mary queen of shops. 

Multimodal learning is teaching concepts using multiple modes. 

Modes are channels of information or anything that communicates meaning in some way, including

• Pictures  Illustrations   Audio    Speech     Writing and print
• Music   Movement     Gestures     Facial expressions   Colors

Digital multimodal texts include film, animation, slide shows, e-posters, digital stories, podcasts, and we​​b pages that may include hyperlinks to external pronunciation guides or translations.

Multi text Database-not all text are equal.

Hapara Dashboard
Students need to regularly file their work-open their drives & drop their work into the correct folders. Needs to be a regular weekly thing, don't ever ask students to make folders as it will never show on Hapara.

Introduction to creating a site
I need to design a new class site that stands on its own, engaging, multimodal design for behavioral engagement and multi-textural for cognitive engagement., designed to give students choice. I will re-look at the examples provides as I plan for this.

Create a multi modal site
Fairly happy with this- started gathering the resources prior to today. Although I worked on a site that wasn't age-appropriate for my class, I felt I could achieve the objective without too much stress and once I was fairly comfortable with the process, I could attempt this again at the appropriate age level. Maybe that was my way of scaffolding the learning for me?