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Digital Fluency Intensive 2021 Day Five

I really enjoyed this day of DFI. I thought lots of what we covered was both challenging and inspiring which was cool. 

We started the day looking at a really important aspect of the Manaiakalani kaupapa: visible learning. And it was basically as simple as it sounds: can we see it (teaching and learning) or not? Vicki spoke about the fact that teaching and learning should be visible for learners, their whānau, yourself as the teacher and your colleagues. A good reminder that all of those groups benefit from when teaching and learning is visible and easily accessed. Vicki spoke about how the day to day should be visible on your class site. Later on Kerry talked about how your class site is like your shop front window - you want the response of your learners to be “Wow I really want to go inside”. This is something I previously thought of as more of a ‘senior thing’ but I am now inspired to see what this could look like for our class site for our New Entrant learners. My team and I are fairly new to class sites so it is exciting to see what the possibilities are.


I felt quite similarly about multi-modal and multi-textual resources before today. It was great to see some junior examples of this. I definitely think that there is value even from 5 years old to be exposed to different types and forms of texts, as well as texts that offer additional ideas, other perspectives and that pre-teach concepts and vocabulary. We could easily incorporate this into what we do for Big Book so it is good to see an authentic place for this in my teaching and learning programme.


It was wonderful having an opportunity to have a go myself at creating a multi-modal site for junior children about friendship. I enjoyed working in a group to brainstorm ideas and find resources that fell under the different categories (complimentary text, scaffolding text, challenging text). The hands-on, nitty-gritty element of actually making the site from scratch was also incredibly useful. It gave me a good opportunity to practise working with different layouts and adding and embedding different things, like slides, youtube playlists and videos. I would like to add more to my site but I’m proud of what I have created so far. Making my own site from scratch is something that used to stress me out a lot, so I feel like today was super valuable for my confidence with Google Sites. It will be really useful knowledge for during this lockdown home learning period, but also going into the future for our class site development. 


Looking forward to the additional learning we will do around sites next week!
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  1. Phil @ Ako HikoAugust 27, 2021 at 3:13 PM

    Kia ora Aimee. You're right that visibility is so simple: It's visible or it isn't. It's been good to have time this week to look through class sites in Ako Hiko and see what great learning opportunities are fully visible. I'm glad you enjoyed the mahi on Google Sites and we'll have lots of time next week to work on our own sites.

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  2. GYENGTUNGSeptember 3, 2021 at 8:28 AM

    Hey Aimee, I can understand what you mean especially working with new entrants. I agree that it is good to expose Juniors to Multi-textual learning and I can't wait to see all the amazing sites you will create for your children especially after today. From achieving one Site to many more 👍🏾

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