It was another informative session with Natalie as Room 10 continued on with this term’s Cyber Smart session focus: Smart Relationships. Cook Island language week is always a fun one, and our class has diligently kept up with the daily challenges. And speaking of challenges, I found today’s session both challenging and fun as I worked alongside my students to help them to complete today’s task:
The video we watched at the start pf the lesson was quite captivating: https://youtu.be/vJ4LvGnwgow?si=57AlfO7W2GEcmZ7L
I think it was the very first time most if not all of us had heard the legend of how Mt. Aitutaki had come to be, and I could see our class found it to be quite an interesting legend. If you have time, it really is well worth the watch.
I had positioned myself near our newest student who has recently joined us from Tonga. I was thrilled to see him and another student he was seated with, really enjoying the task of creating their own google drawing of Mt. Aitutaki. I must say they did such a great job.
The Mt. Aitutaki creations that our class created were each original and amazing. We are actually doing a Topic study at the moment on a renowned Pacific Artist extraodannaire, Fatu Feu’u. We are exploring the important elements and meaning of his art, as well as showing how he might express his art wuth the use of AI tools. Google drawing is one of the tools that our students are using to show this, and so it was awesome to see more layers of learning being added to their kete.
What a timely lesson today’s session was. I will be sure to remind my student’s tomorrow to use their new found skills of navigating google drawing into their digital artwork expressions of Fatu Feu’u.
I must also add that embedding the students artwork into their blogs was also an interesting technique. Seeing some of the students successfully perform this was impressive.
I would like to include a collage of Room 10’s work here, so please watch this space. I actually attempted to do my own Google drawing of Mt. Aitutaki but somethow my fingers found it difficult to navigate the polyline tool. I won’t give up though, and I look forward to sharing my digital artwork along with that of my student’s.
Lastly, I think that I will get my student’s to visit each other’s blogs tomorrow and keep practicing how to leave quality blog comments. This will not only help them to learn this skill, but also help to create a more caring digital community within our classroom.