Digital Fluency Intensive Week 1 - Journey

Digital Fluency Intensive Week 1 - Journey

They say every journey begins with a single step! 
This journey for me began when I joined a Manaiakalani school this year, having been out of the classroom for four years working in the field of Mindfulness, Behaviour and Anxiety Regulation.
What an exhilarating journey this will be if this first session is an example of what can be achieved.

The first session, hearing the development/history of the Manaiakalani Trust was valuable to see this began as a process to develop the dispositions of our young people as engaged learners and that the technology is a tool but the process is the key Learn Create Share. 

I am excited by the prospect of developing my digital fluency and feel more confident as a learner that I will be supported and guided through this journey. The outcome for me is less important than the process I am going through where I will be challenged to build competence and capability. It is a gift to have professional development intensively targeted to skills that will help me be more efficient and capable as a teacher and in my journey beyond the classroom.
There is so much from today of value, particularly in terms of technical skill, vocabulary, process and relevance that it will take time to assimilate the new learning before applying this to my New Entrant learning environment. The Voice typing tool will be a useful tool for explaining their ideas into text as well as reading simple texts. At present we do not have any devices in our space but have a screen which we use so I can see the benefit in many ways. 
The poster I have created is to go with our Discovery focus to extend children's thinking about their learning. I didn't get the background removal step done this time but am keen to explore this further.


My takeaway from today:
All learning is a journey. When the focus is on the process it becomes a manageable step by step journey rather than a huge leap to the outcome (digital fluency). The skills, dispositions and capabilities are the process I am excited to have the opportunity to be learning.

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  1. Mrs Rachael HeffermanJuly 28, 2020 at 1:40 PM

    Hi Cath - lots of the same feelings form me too - perhaps as we teach the same year group! I love the idea of using the voice typing skill to record the thoughts and ideas children have about their play and also to generate those feelings of success as a writer. Your comment about the vocabulary resonated with me as if we can start using the right vocabulary from the start, hopefully it will be useful to those teachers who build on their learning in the future. I like the idea of your poster around Learn Create Share for Discovery - I may be borrowing that one :) Maybe the children in your space could think of ways to show the Learn Create Share in their Discovery time to add to your poster?

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