DFI Day Two Reflection

Kia ora koutou, 

Today in our second DFI session we focused on Learn within the Learn, Create, Share model. Here is a snapshot of what Learn looks like at Wesley Primary.

 

Our Learn is supportive, collaborative, integrated, authentic and student-led. The learn we provide is visible and ubiquitous (rewindable, always available) on our team site - Kea site. 

We enable our students to amplify and turbocharge their learning through offering student choice based tasks that allow them to use new opportunities through digital technologies such as tinkercad and minecraft. They often become the experts rather quickly and end up teaching each other and us!

Google Keep - an awesome takeaway from today!

This is an app I use frequently on my phone for personal use but that I have not yet utilised for work (besides the occasional to-do list). Being able to add what you've written on a keep note onto google docs is going to be extremely helpful when working on the go. The grab text from image and microphone transcribing is also going to be very useful and I look forward to utilising these in meetings.

Gmail 

We are signed up to receive notifications when our students post on their blogs or receive comments. With 70 children that ends up being a lot of emails to go through! With Jeremy's assistance I was able to organise those emails to go directly into a separate folder from my main inbox which has cleared out my Gmail nicely. :)

Google Meet and Create

We used Google Meet to share our thoughts around a blog post. Here is an example of a task a student did during lockdown that shows the Learn, Create and Share model.