EMPOWERMENT=CHOICES!
Dorothy spoke about how daunting it was for educators when Manaiakalani was first intorduced and the digital tech into schools. The thoughts of having no job, having eveyrthing done and prepared there already. I had the exact same thoughts but I 100% feel empowered by DFI. Its about building and equipping our young learners but also building and equiping our educators too.
5+ a day. How cool was this exercise! and its something I do in my class however, not with all of my learners. Having that conversation ping pong style going back and forth at least 5 times. Encouraging our learners to respond and participate other than shrug, nod their head or grunt. I feel this is important and powerful for our Rangatahi especially at my school where our students are so engrossed in their phones, in their drama but forget that there are actually adults who do care.
Quote from a principal: Marie Mitchell: Disciver the treasure that lies within them.
I feel if we are not doing this as educators, we need to reset or find another job.
Our exploring task and creating task were super fun today! looking at all the coding activities that I know my students have looked at in Digital tech was fun to have a tutu. Pre thoughts today when I heard coding. NO THANKS! after today cant wait to go through some of these activities with my class next year.
I looked at Coding with Mine craft, Bee bots, Toxicode and flappy bird. Toxicode would be an amazing follow up task of instructional writing showing the importance of breaking those instructions up and what happens when you misread or forget one.
Creating task I looked at Dance party with Aimee TOTAL CARNAGE! so fun and very easy to follow through with small groups.
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