DFI 3

Hanging out with Dorothy:

Create... Hanga - It's all about the HOOK!

• How do we as teachers ramp it up in the classroom?

You can check out some research around this here: We Teach Who We Are: Creativity in the Lives and Practices of Accomplished Teachers by Danah Henriksen & Punya Mishra

"The Lifelong Kindergarten Group" - A world of Playfully Creative People..."

• This may be beneficial for our Te Ara Whakatau team to check out, particularly regarding Play-based learning?

The goal is to have no learner missing out on the opportunity to create within their learning journey.
It's time again to focus on Teacher Creativity. We need to be celebrating this within our Kura as well as wider.

The heART of the matter talks to the learners as adults as they describe what it was like to learn in this way.

It wasn't National Standards that killed it, it just slowly wilted away. Let's go back to it! Focus on the front half of the curriculum as well as the back half.

Exploring Create in the Manaiakalani Programme open doc. This is fascinating to look at, particularly after our own clusters journey to unpack what Learn, Create and Share actually mean. It's great being able to look at this knowing how many brains have pooled to create this shared understanding. It's also something that I feel we need to refer back to in order to continue to be on the same page.

This image, created by Karen Ferguson from Tamaki College, which sums up what it means to Create in our Manaiakalani pedagogy.

Manaiakalani Foundation goal: to "motivate our learners to engage with the curriculum"... Are our kids actually being encouraged and lured into engaging with the curriculum? Or are they being expected to engage?

We need our kids to be Creators of content. If they are not being challenged to engage, then they become consumers of content. Passively surfing the net etc. It's "learn, create, share", not "learn, go google, share". (Brilliant quote from Mark Maddren)

Purposely creating the opportunity for creativity and learning.

Often the learning hook starts with the opportunity to create, then they have to go away and do the learning.

We need to pull it back to the purpose:

Motivate our learners to ENGAGE with the curriculum

The 6 C's of education in the 21st Century.

Creativity is key. Nobody wants to employ somebody that just knows how to tap in to find existing info, they want employees that can generate ideas and thinking.

Ken Robertson was an actor before he was an activist in creativity.

SISOMO

Kevin Roberts from Saachi and Saachi (A Kiwi who was CEO Worldwide) Sight/Sound/Motion.
If you want people to buy-in you need to touch their hearts. To do that you need to use these 3 ingredients.  SISOMO creates innovation and imagination as well.

Cool Hacks

Slides - if you are stuck in "present" mode, you can delete the end of the url to see the speaker notes. Likewise, if you are sharing something, put "/copy" on the end and it will force them to make a copy.

Multi Modal

Engaging "The Hook"

Our challenge is that our learners are immersed in a world where everything around them is competing to engage them and we have to be able to hook them in the same way. We need to hook our kids in, at the beginning, so that they think "Oh wow, I really want to get into this". Pt England use Immersion Assembly's to hook their learners. 

Initially, the technology alone engages, but the novelty wears off. It still needs to be what we are actually doing as teachers.

"Once you've hooked them, teach them!" - WFRC

Sometimes we have to gift them with the prior knowledge so that they can access the inferential knowledge. 

(Links to wide and deep)

Chrissie Butler - UDL

Breaking down the barrier of it being the same old same old, but with a different cover.

Acknowledge that people are different in order to provide for the different ways that individual learners are going to perceive the information. We need to be mo=indful that the variety supports the students, rather than narrowing their perimeters. We need to create a default where there is lots of variabilities. choice over accessing content as well as choice over task.

Creating Multi-Modal Resources

I created this resource, ready for next weeks literacy class. It is now not only in our Uru Manuka Shared Resource Folder, but shared with our Te Ara Tuhura Cluster also. These connections are massive in terms of moving forward. It reminded me of the journey we have been on these past 5 years. I remember way back when...  we were having to start from scratch and it felt like we were reinventing the wheel. Once we began to collaborate, within our schools and cluster, life got a whole lot easier. We openly chat about different things we "borrow" from each other. I feel doing this helps drive our practice forward, as we improve on them while using.

Google Sites

We created a sandpit site (along with a sandpit site folder) to just experiment with. Here is mine.

Using Google Drawing, we created a site header of our own. (1000x250 pixels). We downloaded it as a png and then upload it.

Buttons: 250x250 pixels. To make it a specific shape, you go up to the arrow beside the crop "mask image" and select a shape. I had forgotten to download my button drawing as a PNG image, therefore I wasn't able to easily create the link. 

I experimented with creating an image carousel to showcase photos.

My question around the homepage is what content should be on there, as I have gone away from using buttons to link to the pages. They use the tabs at the top.