Smart Learners confidently navigate and harness their device and learning applications...

Today at PES we were learning how to use the camera app on our iPad...but first we learnt about the Kawa of Care with the iPads.

Then we practised taking some photographs inside the classroom...

Before we explored outside where our class was learning through play...

...and then we came inside to see what was happening at the discovery table.

 Before we reviewed our photographs and kept the ones that were just right...

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Going Live with Hug-Holds and Stackings

Today we were learning about the Kawa of Care in our iPad learning.  

We are being SMART-LEARNERS.

HUG HOLDING our iPads...

STACKING 4 iPads only...

• I will respect the terms of the Kawa of Care
• I will respect the equipment (my ipad, power charger and cover) by looking after it and keeping it safe.
• I will respect others by always using my ipad to interact with others in a kind, positive and helpful way.
• I will make the most of this opportunity to learn lots of new things and to share these with others.
• I will always be in the right place, at the right time when I am online. If in doubt I will ask my teacher
• I am responsible for any activity undertaken on this iPad.

DOG-abled article; December 2018 (Parent 2 Parent)

Kawa of Care / 1:1 iPads / N.E

Smart Learners are at home in a digital world...

Manaiakalani 1:1 ipads

• Where 1:1 iPads are deployed for the first time it is critical that Smart Learners is used to introduce learners to iPads in a 1:1 environment.
• We recommend Smart Learners is introduced in sequence.
• Enable learners sufficient time to practise and connect with key elements of the Kawa of Care before introducing new learning.
• Identify opportunities for learners to connect with key learning within existing programmes of learning. This means practising what they are learning , everyday. It is critical to establish routines and expectations early to support future learning.

Woolf Fisher reporting back; 2019

Building vocab; usage and contextual

Experiential programmes

Resourcing all invested parties

Whanau engagement

Reading for meaning

Building sustainable classroom capacity

Tools for learning and not just "outcome" foci

Bigger picture thinking

Authentic and purposeful deliberate acts

Scaffolding and Bridging

High expectations

"Digital tools such as gaming can improve critical and analytical thinking."

NZ Herald; Woolf Fisher Article

Teaching kids to be better thinkers is all well and good, but whanau need to be embraced in this learning journey too if a sustained difference is to be made...how do we go about this in a world where instant gratification and living in the now is the 'norm'.

                                                   Attention

                                                                Revelation

         Friends

                            Love

                                                           Sustainability

• Initially you need to grab their attention by getting them to notice the detail that they are missing...what is it they are not noticing that would make a difference to their involvement with their childs' learning journey?  
• The previously unknown fact or disclosure of information may well be a revelation of the bigger picture, but if merely a glimpse was to be given wouldn't there be a thirst to know more and therefore a greater "buy-in" for the long haul.  
• By using the local community relationships and embedded cultural contacts to spread the required message friends will bring friends who will bring friends unconditionally to the epicentre of the thought process of change.
• Change at the best of times is difficult and uncomfortable, but if done in and communicated through love transformation will occur.  Love actually is an act of facilitation.
• Thinking, whether critical or analytical has to be maintained at a certain rate or level to achieve sustainability for all parties.  Each one of us can make a difference...but collectively we can make a difference.

Te Haerenga...the journey

Kua eke i runga i te waka kotahi. 

Kia mahara tatou kei hoe whakatuara.  

Kia tika ano te tikanga o te hoe ki to te hunga o te ihu. 

Kei huri te hunga o te kei ki te hoe whakamuri.

Now that we have all embarked on one canoe, 

let us be careful that we do not pull backwards. 

Let us all pull in the same direction as those who sit in the bows; do not let the people in the stern paddle in the opposite direction.

No other school offers anything quite like Te Haerenga. Learners undertake a year-long, learning journey in all aspects of their campus life; academic, outdoors, social and spiritual. 

The journey parallels that of a waka journey, with three distinct phases...

• The first phase, manning the waka, focuses on understanding their place and their role and is closely guided. (LEARN)
• Casting off involves leaving the shore but remaining in safe waters...learners at this stage will be encouraged to take calculated risks and to cope with making mistakes. (CREATE)
• Finally, in exploring new horizons, the learners are encouraged to explore new horizons, to spread their wings, all the while reflecting on where they have been and on those who have taken the journey with them. (SHARE)

...beginning of a journey for my Monster and I.

As I have reflected upon these last couple of weeks in my new role as a PLD facilitator for MET, I have been drawn again and again to my son's new school handbook for the adventure he is also undertaking.  This week he had his powhiri at Mangatawhiri as he embarks upon the next 5 years of his learning journey. He has for the last 3 years been a student within a Manaiakalani school where he has embraced, benefited and grown in the LCS pedagogy.  However, this year will be very different to any that he has known as he steps into the unknown (but proven) realm of foci upon personal transformation by becoming aware of his innate talents and strengths, adapting and accepting himself to be relatable to all others, continuing to contribute positively to his world and developing depth to his capabilities as a learner in a different genre...

We are both going to (and have already) face new challenges personally and professionally, discover opportunities designed to stretch and grow us in ways we were not aware of, but we are willing to enter into the adventure hopeful that we will emerge at the end a more confident, resilient and capable learner/facilitator who enables and empowers others to be the best that they can be regardless of any situation and one where we too can resinate with that mantra. So what can I add to my LCS journey as a PLD facilitator to date?

Learn:

I have learnt to to help others when, and how, to roll a student blog over...

• Log into blogger.com
• Choose blog to roll
• Settings > basic > permissions
• Add author, once accepted amend to admin, remove old admin
• Settings > email (new admin & pupil) into comment & post
• Layout > header (update details)

Create:

I am a new creation...my label has changed.  

I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my decisions and as creativity is contagious it should be passed along.  Motivation to empower the teachers (and students) to engage with the curriculum in an authentic way begins with getting the foundations correct and initially this has been in ensuring that all student/class blogs are all ready to go so that they are a tool to create to learn.

Share:

I am being guided/mentored to tell, to deliver, to report, to point out, to brief, to relay, to divulge, to advise, to let someone know...

But smart Manaiakalani learners are at home today in a digital world and therefore have to be cyber-smart in their sharing too.  The next step in my journey is to enable our learners to share smartly, by empowering and supporting their teachers to be smarter, which will then grow, accelerate and allow progress to occur in their students learning...

1. Work with learners to establish an authentic audience for their learning outcomes
2. Empower our learners with an evidence-based belief that their personal voice is valuable and powerful

Judges 18 v6

"...be assured.  Your journey is taken care of."