Trailblazers workshop

In today's session, what I found interesting is the fact that New Zealand has the most relaxed laws in regards to testing new flying technology. Such as flying cars and it will Omgi-Tech that will be hosting this awesome event. We played a game that exercised our moral judgement in relation to auto-pilot vehicles and realized that a lot more safer then an actual human-being driving a car because they are programmed to pick up things a lot faster "wowee".  On a serious note, it has been said that it will decrease the amount of deaths, accidents and assist with family chores. I see the advantages of this but couldn't help thinking that it is just pure laziness and what sort of impact is this could have our future tamariki. Probably way off topic but that's what I found interesting.

Creating 3-D Shapes

Creating 3-D shapes definitely sparked an interest so much so I've asked CNC kits if it's possible of creating 3-D shapes of skeletons and muscles. Something the kids, could be more hands on with and visually see what parts (muscles/bones/joints) go where. These were the sites that were suggested to me: thingyverse.com or 3-Dprint.com to find skeleton or muscle templates that are of course copyright friendly. Sadly, I realize that it can be quite costly and something the school could probably do well without but it is an awesome hands-on resource that kids at Tamaki College could definitely benefit from. Anyway, back to our DFI session below is what I created today :)

Multi-Modal

In todays's session, I learnt about "Multi-Modal", I really liked that it could be used in many ways to engage learners. What I take away from the session is that it is our job to sell the lesson to the learners the same way a business owner would sell a brand of Nike shoes. How can we expect our learners to learn or change if we do not make interesting or inviting??. In particular, Mrs Burt mentioned something about changing our view/attitude on what's "Compulsory" and focusing more on how we can make learning more engaging for the students. Focusing on the "Hook" because if their interested and invested in the learning "Behavior"  won't be an issue. I think Mrs Burt is right, it happened yesterday with my year 11 class. We did a "Muscle Competition" and ended it with a game of "Kahoot it". They were super excited about beating others in the class, they got very rowdy so I stopped and waited for them to settle-down. It worked like a treat, they settled down (not a class norm) because they really wanted to carry on and I think the element of competition helped. For example, whoever is the smartest in the class gets bragging rights (Hook) etc.

Notes for me:

• Engagement-Enthusiastic teachers/Storytellers-The way you sell the lesson!
• Hooking the kids in/Motivating them to learn
• Deepen understanding & hook them in (Brains & behavior engagement)
• Cannot teach them anything without behavior change.
• Using tech to assist literacy and change behavior
• I can’t just present a text and not acknowledge that others need to learn it in different ways. E.G. videos, recording it, through doing, singing & writing.

My Creations :)

I learnt how to create an infographic on google drawing and is something that I will definitely use in health classes. For google slides, new students could use it to introduce themselves to the rest of their peers. Google animations, I think I could possibly use it for pe and more specifically maybe 'joint movements' but feel it could be quite time consuming. It was suggested that I give it to student as homework to support their learning outside of the classroom. Below are some of the things I created on different digital g-sweet apps:

Pepeha Google Drawings-Infographic Animation

What I created today!

Google Survey

Introduce yourself

• Learnt to link questions to different sections
• Learnt to switch on the "Required button"

Google Maps

Google sheets

• Learnt how to create a graph
• Link to notes

What I want to go over next session "Filters" on google sheet. Last week, I was hesitant to post but this week I have posted on two students blogs and shortly will be attempting to comment "professionally" on other teachers blogs.