Seventh Day of DFI- Devices agenda

 Today was an exploring day of different kind of devices like Chromebook and iPad which our young learners use.

The session started Connecting with Manaiakalani- Ubiquitous. The main objective of this by Manaiakalani is accessing learning ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANY PACE by ANYONE. It is very important to allow students to continue their learning outside school hours which would be helpful for learners when they are not in class at that particular time. Rewindable Learning is making learning accessible to more learners with different abilities at their own pace. It was interesting to know about the Summer Learning Program organised by Manaiakalani where students learn new things everyday and then post their learning on their blog. This keeps their learning continue.

The session then was on Cybersmart Curriculum. The objective is to make students digitally smart and excellent and using positive language in digital environment.

Cybersmart Program is all about empowering "confident, connected, actively, involved, lifelong learners".

Today the Hapara Hot tips was on Workspace- how we can discover workspace of other educators  filtering by subject or topic. 

Then I came to know about Manaiakalani 1:1 Journey with Chromebooks. The main objective for this is Partnership, Participation, and Protection. Partnership included the huge crowd which is between whanau, community, teachers, and learners.

Partnership was to make sure every learner can participate and support teachers to become digitally fluent when they are in the class of learners all with same devices. Then the protection was to make sure all digital learning is visible and this was done by partnering with Hapara to design teacher dashboard.

The motto of Manaiakalani was also Equity and Access- providing the very best device for learning for every young person. Students started their learning with ASUS netbook from 2010-2012 and then from 2013 they continued their kaupapa using chrombook.

Then we had a explore session on knowing the different features and learning the use of different key tabs of chromebook.

The next session was on iPad which is used in junior classes and we had an explore session on iPad where I learnt use different features of iPad and created an image which is below.

Lastly, I had a create session on Hapara where I learned to create a new workspace by adding the images, title, description, and sections. We use Hapara workspace for Learn create and share the learnings in our school. So I am always interested to learn more about Hapara. Below is the workpace I have created in the session.