DFI Devices - Fun and Frustration

 Devices - The fun and frustration

Oh how I feel for the little people who come into our New Entrant learning space full of curiosity and eager to start drawing and Reading and Writing. Many think it will happen immediately, and adults around them can inadvertently perpetuate this idea by "preparing them" to start on day one. 

Today was a good experience for me to be "as the learner" in a similar situation. I approached this session so keen to explore and become proficient using Explain Everything on an IPad so that I would be ready to impart all my clever learning and guide my students to explore and create in an engaging environment. 

AHA only one problem.... I will need to take steps slowly to follow the process and build my skills... just as the new learner in our space learns to do. 

As I encourage my students to do, I will have to continue to stop, consider possible options, seek advice, know what I have control of and what I can't control and to maintain a calm brain while facing challenges. Knowing what to ask and where to go to find solutions, with steps that I can control to go at my pace, has been my learning from today. 

I relate this to how I try to empower the learners in my space, and how the Cyber smart process takes children through many of these steps by encouraging routines and regular practice, use of devices confidently, navigating skilfully to access their learning and connecting with their responsibilities as a learner and as a Digital citizen.

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  1. Sharon SpraggSeptember 9, 2020 at 3:17 PM

    Kia ora Cath,

    What a wonderful reflection on how it is to be a learner and enter into the learning pit. I think as adults we often forget to enter the learning pit or how hard it is in the learning pit. I'm glad that your experience will shape how you teach and that your skills teaching new entrants is shaping the way you engage in your own learning.

    Ngā mihi
    Sharon

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