#DFI 7, 8 & 9
Devices, Google L2 and Computational Thinking...

Celebrate the valleys as well as the mountain tops!

So on Friday I sat my Level 2 Google Certified Educator exam...and failed!  

But that's o.k.  No really - it is OK.  It's not fatal.

I am a learner, and sometimes I learn by doing things again in order to succeed.

Failure should be our teacher and not our label.  

Failure is a delay...not a defeat.  

It is a temporary detour not a dead-end.  

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Kindness and Kaitiakitanga...

Oat the goat
Oat the Goat is an interactive, online story book, which aims to teach children about empathy, acceptance and tolerance.  Designed to help students of all ages learn about the power of kindness, this engaging bullying prevention resource encourages children to make the right decision through a positive interactive experience with their parents, whānau, family, teacher or peers.  The exciting story follows Oat the Goat as he embarks upon the adventure of his life through native, animated New Zealand landscapes. Along the way, he meets some surprising new friends – a curious creature called Amos, a little green glow worm that lights up with love and a group of woolly bullies.  The music, featuring the symphonic sounds of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra alongside traditional Māori instruments taonga pūoro, and eye-catching animation brings the story to life.  Available to read, in both te reo Māori and English, Oat the Goat helps you talk to your students about the choices they have when they see someone being bullied – Should they laugh? Ignore them? Or include and be kind to them? You don’t need to use the word ‘bullying’ to teach skills that will prevent unkind behaviour. The focus in Oat the Goat is on learning how to get on with each other.

PAPER SCRUNCH

Leaving creases in other people...

Question;

  What have you done today to be kind...

to yourself, to others, to someone you do not know?

MET Create T2 Staff Meeting - Curiosity, Collaborations & Creativity

   

 

Motivate our TEACHERS to engage with the curriculum by CREATING...give the teachers something to do, not something to learn and if the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, learning naturally results.  Creating provides TEACHERS with an opportunity to reflect on, synthesize and come to a deeper understanding of what they read and know - or think they know!

Sharing is caring...

We make a living by what we get

We make a life by what we give


or


The more we share

The more we have


If you have knowledge, let others light their candles from it and set the world on fire...

DFI #6 - sites