Day 5: Digital Fluency Intensive

Today we discussed Visible Sites for Learning which is really important when it comes to teaching digitally.  Dorothy emphasised the importance of whanau having access to their child's learning at all times.  She also talked about how there should be "no surprises" in learning for children... that it should be accessible, available and laid out in advance - which works to save lots of future conflict by talking about what's coming next for our students.

Clarelle Carruthers visited today and talked about MultiModal Learning which involves taking different modes of communication and giving children access to them to learn with.  She expressed that engagement starts with us and how we need to motivate our learners to want to engage with the curriculum.  It is through having choice that students are empowered, with their interests driving their learning.   

For the second part of the day, we were very busy creating Google Sites in age level groups.  Gerhard walked us through a quick sandpit in it and emphasised the importance of drafting out our Google site beforehand so that we have a clear direction of where are headed.  Using the Garden With Science curriculum resource, we drafted out a plan for a Google site.  This involved thinking of buttons we wanted on our site and the subpages/content to go along with it.  Our group first wrote down all our ideas and then colour-coded it for different headings.  Then, we drew out our own draft together for a potential site.

Following that, we created our own individual drafts which we then turned into our very own Google site which was super fun and engaging.  Looking forward to working on this site more and creating other Google sites!

https://sites.google.com/ptengland.school.nz/inquiry-rm-13/home