DFI - Day 5

17/04/26

DFI - Day 5 (Google Sites)

Connecting with Manaiakalani (visible learning)- Dorothy

Make teaching and learning visible.

Can the learner/whanau/teacher actually see what they're meant to be learning?

If so much of the learning journey is hidden from them and their parents, has this meant children fail.

Is success related to the ability to read the teacher's mind?

Visibly display the intention e.g. WALTs and Success Criteria.

The intentional use of technology to make learning visible has been a game changer.

Have it upfront, visible, and accessible to everyone.

The default is visible.

We don't like surprises - we like to know what's coming.  Surprises don't support learning.

Removing password barriers.  Everything the learner need is present.  Using google sites is great for all of this.

Manaiakalani Class OnAir - every year teachers apply to be a Class OnAir and video themselves teaching.  There is a searchable data base to find over 400 episodes who are teaching in classrooms where every learner has their own device.

Hāpara Hot Tip: sharing for visibility - Stacey

Maybe not weekly but regularly

Deep Dive - Multi Modal: Amie

Multimodal communication

These all work but some are more efficient, some people have a preferred mode.

Consider your audience.

1:1 devices or BYOD was brought in they thought engagement was the biggest thing.

Having a broader bag of tricks to engage students for those times when you can't be on show.

Having something really visual is going to support in more ways than we realise.

Universal design for learning.
There are always varied learners.  UD for L is a framework.  
1. We know we need to provide lots of options on how we present material for students - Text, video, images, audio, movement.

2. The way we express what we know is different.

3. Engagement - each of us is motivated by very different things.  What's in it for me.

We are trying to personalise learning for many different children.  How can we provide these opportunities that is sustainble and visible.

- Use a video or something to front-load them before reading.

- could extend by using multi-textual resources.  Lots of different types of text to extend and deepend learning on a specific learning.

Give access to texts at different levels, and provide audio if the text is in chronological order.

Able to self-scaffold.

How can we utitlise the site for both behavioural and cognitive engagement?\

These are examples of displaying things differently to engage children and sell the learning.

Does it show multiple different text types?

Less text heavy and easily accessible.

Things I like about the multimodal sites i've looked at

• Having a slide of sunshine online books screenshot on to check out.
• You can hide a page from the navigation bar and still have a button to link to it.

Multi-text Database link

Blogging Tip - Understanding what tags are.

When they are made they can appear in quite a few different places.  With that when you click on a tag it sends it to a place where you can find any post that has been labeled with that tag.

You could use tags that match the standards and code.