Week 7 Close To Home

What a treat being close to home this week in the beautiful Waitangi Treaty Grounds with lunch at Whare Waka Café.

This weeks takeaway from computational thinking for me was that we need to make sure we enable our students to be digital creators not just digital users. By making our students digitally fluent they can then decide what is the best way/program to use to learn, show case or complete their work. This hopefully will set them up to be adaptable in the future with any and all advancements in technology to come. Also we should be using the word programming not coding so that in the future our students can apply the same steps to future projects and other programs that they may use and not just the one program they have learnt to use that day.

Empowerment was todays focus within the Manaiakalani pedagogy - my understanding is that we need to empower all of our students, colleagues and whanau with the knowledge they need to be successful, because knowledge is power and moving forward everyone has the right to feel empowered and have the same opportunities to learn regardless of where they come.

The create part of the day had Jane and I getting quite excited about our Stop Motion Animation, although we needed a bit of help at the end because we managed to lose half of the animation. Making the animation was a lot more engaging for me than I thought it would be, especially when we came up with good ideas. I liked the shadowing of the last move you made so if you accidently knocked your character (in this case Lego man), you could use the shadowing to place him back exactly where you took the last photo. See below for our animation. Credits Jane Lindsay😉

I have struggled with trying to put voice instruction on my Google site. Firstly I used voice memo on my phone, then emailed it to myself, then downloaded it to my drive then embedded into my Google Site. What was shared with me today is the app Mote which I can use on my computer through Google Slides to record my voice. Phew what a time saver.