Friday, 1 March 2019

Manaiakalani DFI Tairawhiti 2019

Today was the first day of the Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive [DFI] in Tairawhiti (a.k.a Gizzy - also my hometown). It was awesome to be back in my old stomping ground of Riverdale School where many many moons ago I was a J 1 & 2 Learner (back when it was still called J1!). This time however, I was co-facilitating the DFI for a group of brilliant local educational professionals from the Tairawhiti Cluster of Manaiakalani Outreach. 


The 9 week programme has been designed to meet these four key goals within a professional learning group.
  1. Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools our young people use for learning
  2. Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools required for effective teaching, planning, assessment and professional learning
  3. Our teachers are supported to understand how digital technologies used effectively can have a significant impact on accelerating achievement outcomes
  4. Our teachers are supported to understand how the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa has been co-constructed over more than a decade to maximise the impact of effective teaching and learning in a digital learning environment.


Each week participants are asked to complete a blogpost to reflect on and share what they have learned that day. Have a look at our Tairawhiti Team's blogs below, follow our journey, and be sure to leave a comment!
My key learning this week was how good the Voice Typing tool in google docs is. So many practical uses for it within the classroom too, especially for engaging unmotivated writers. Top tip: Remember to change the language to English (New Zealand) so that it picks up our accent, but also so that you can say "full stop" at the end of the sentence instead of "period" as required in English US. 


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4 comments:

  1. Dorothy Burt2 March 2019 at 22:39

    Hi Stef, thanks so much for adding your expertise and experience to the day. We are blessed to have you in the team. I hope you revel in the next few weeks of travelling home and working with colleagues from your early years.
    Dorothy

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    1. Stef Parker3 March 2019 at 20:56

      Absolutely Dorothy. I really look forward to the upcoming weeks. Also, a big thank you to you for leading on Friday. I hope I can do the rest of the DFI days justice. You're a tough act to follow ;)

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  2. Anonymous3 March 2019 at 11:59

    Thank you Stef for supporting us all today. I look forward to learning more alongside you to assist me in becoming more digitally proficient!

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  3. Anonymous3 March 2019 at 16:01

    Kia ora Stef,
    Thanks for your pro-active collaboration in the prep and first session of DFIGizzy1. Great idea to add the blogs to your post.
    Maria

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