Week 4 DFI 2019

Session 4

Session for is all about the SHARE.

We started the session having a google hangout with Dorothy Burt who was in a cathedral in Auckland. This worked well and highlighted to me how easy and convenient this tool is and how distance and location are no longer a barrier. I am going to try a hangout with my family in Canada.

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Share within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

It is always interesting to listen to Dorothy - she is very passionate about what she does.

My key take-outs from the session were as follows:

Sharing is about creating relationships

Speed and amplification of sharing on the world wide web/social networking has it’s benefits and
disadvantages;

Being able to share helps to accelerate learning in our students;

Being digital gets rid of constraints - helps to liberate our students;

There must be a purpose for sharing - and students need to have an authentic audience

Authentic audience chooses to listen. As Dorothy says:

Using the digital platform helps students be motivated to actually finish work

Sharing is a place to start learning again because people comment so then new learning can be
prompted.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Google Sites is new to me so there was a lot of new learning for me. I did find that I had trouble keeping up with the pace of the learning in these sessions. As a principal I have not had the need to create a class site. I am thinking that it might be useful to create a PLD site for the professional learning journey my staff and I are on this year. It could be a one stop shop for all the resources and learning we are doing. I think this would be useful for my learners (staff) and myself. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Going through all the ins and outs of Google Keep was very great. I was familiar with and was using google keep on my phone but not on my computer, and I was not aware of all the settings and linking you can do within this tool.