DFI Day 9 Reflection
I am surprised how satisfying it feels to have passed the level 1 google educator exam.
The course has been of great benefit. I thought I was reasonably competent with online tools but I have learnt something new every week.
Huge thank you to the Manaiakalani Team for all the effort they have put in to this. Thank you to Dorothy and Gerhard in particular as the main presenters and Gerhard as my bubble group facilitator.
Thinking about how our school responded to the lockdown:
What are you proud of?
I am really proud of the way our teachers stepped up to online learning. For some this was a steep learning curve but everyone got stuck in and did a great job. I am incredibly grateful for having Elizabeth to manage all the behind the scenes technical issues and the way that she supported teams with all manner of help and advice was incredible.
I also think that our teachers had done a good job of preparing many of our students for online learning. There were reasonable levels of engagement online even given the really short time frame for getting things set up and information out to people.
I am proud of the effort that we made to getting devices to those who didn't have them.
What do you regret?
No regerts
If we had known how long we were to be in lockdown we would have got school devices out to more children before we left school. But given the information we had at the time we made the best decisions we could.
What will you be taking forward?
I think it could be useful if our school community had access to the school wifi network from home. If we could remove that barrier for families I think it would make a difference for many. We also need many more children to have their own device that they take home. We need to maintain staff focus on getting learning onto their sites in a multi modal and rewindable manner. We need to increase the use of blogging and blog commenting. It needs to become an automatic action for children to blog about their learning.
The course has been of great benefit. I thought I was reasonably competent with online tools but I have learnt something new every week.
Huge thank you to the Manaiakalani Team for all the effort they have put in to this. Thank you to Dorothy and Gerhard in particular as the main presenters and Gerhard as my bubble group facilitator.
Thinking about how our school responded to the lockdown:
What are you proud of?
I am really proud of the way our teachers stepped up to online learning. For some this was a steep learning curve but everyone got stuck in and did a great job. I am incredibly grateful for having Elizabeth to manage all the behind the scenes technical issues and the way that she supported teams with all manner of help and advice was incredible.
I also think that our teachers had done a good job of preparing many of our students for online learning. There were reasonable levels of engagement online even given the really short time frame for getting things set up and information out to people.
I am proud of the effort that we made to getting devices to those who didn't have them.
What do you regret?
No regerts
If we had known how long we were to be in lockdown we would have got school devices out to more children before we left school. But given the information we had at the time we made the best decisions we could.
What will you be taking forward?
I think it could be useful if our school community had access to the school wifi network from home. If we could remove that barrier for families I think it would make a difference for many. We also need many more children to have their own device that they take home. We need to maintain staff focus on getting learning onto their sites in a multi modal and rewindable manner. We need to increase the use of blogging and blog commenting. It needs to become an automatic action for children to blog about their learning.
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