Today began with Kent Sommerville talking with us about using drones and other camera connections to livestream using YouTube. He not only shared with us the various uses of drones in a school setting but also how to set up your livestream to be delayed or immediate for various reasons. We also spent some time discussing the pros and cons of using a GoPro verses a Drone for various reasons. I love being part of a school that has the latest digital affordances available that will provide students with different cutting edge experiences. My mind is already working though how I may use the Drone or Osmo when filming my film festival movie.
Just before morning tea, we also spent some time exploring YouTube a little further. We looked into how to set up a YouTube channel that could be used to put together playlists of videos for our students to use for rewindable learning or for deeper learning into a subject.What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?
Manaiakalani Pedagogy Focus: Create/Hanga
As always, it is so wonderful to have some time to focus in on the Learn, Create, Share pedagogy of Manaiakalani. Today we focused on Create/Hanga.
Create in Manaiakalani is all about the hook. What can you do to “hook” students in learning?
“Creative skills help students become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators.” (Everyone Can Create Apple)
“Creativity focuses on the process of forming original ideas through exploration and discovery. In children…” (Kohl 2008)
Create has to continue from ECE classrooms all the way through to Year 13.
NZ was formerly known around the world as a centre for creative education. The documentary called The heART of the Matter focuses on NZ education 60 years ago in the far north at a school which is now a Manaiakalani Outreach School.
It is important to remember that Create is a DOING word, using the whole body and incorporates the senses. The idea of doing something allows our minds to be kickstarted into doing something.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
After hearing a bit about how to use Google Drawing, we had some lovely students come in from Panmure Bridge School and my Blog Post is Here from our session with them.
My big take away from that session is using Shift when resizing the canvas to your desired size.
We also spent some time looking at Google Slides and we were asked to use it to Create something that we would like to use with our students. After exploring student blogs last week for our Hangout assignment, I really wanted to have a go at making an interactive game using Slides. I am so excited to use it next week with my maths students. Check out my blog post here to see my creation.
Hi Angela, I enjoyed reading your post. I agree with this 'Manaiakalani is all about the hook. What can you do to “hook” students in learning?'. The hook was definitely emphasised in today's learning. Children presenting their animations and digital portraits. As educators, we also had an opportunity to have sandpit time. We applied the skills we have learnt and CREATED our own animations and digital portraits. Really impressed with your interactive slide, such a good idea!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sushmita. I am really enjoying DFI and trialing different ideas in my own classroom.
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