One of the six learning goals of Manaaiakalani that we looked at today, was the 'VISIBLE' kaupapa - Making teaching and learning visible. During the time that Dorothy presented the 'Visible' pedagogy and kaupapa, I started to think about myself and the rest of my colleagues who were doing this DFI course. Everything was making sense. We are learners too. John Hattie states that “Visible teaching and learning occurs when there is deliberate practice aimed at attaining mastery of the goal, when there is feedback given and sought, and when there are active, passionate, and engaging people (teacher, students, peers) participating in the act of learning.”.
I must say, that I struggled a little today when doing the group activity on a shared topic in which we had to individually create a google site. It wasn't so much as the creating of a google site, but more in the 'what should I have on my site that would hook the learners. This was time consuming and I didn't get as much done on it as I would have liked too. I will endeavor to keep practicing using google sites as I know that it will benefit my learners and myself.
The Multi Modal Deep Dive session with Kerry was a bonus for me. I got the opportunity to see what other teachers had put onto their sites in terms of ;engagement - the hook'.
The little you tube video of 'Dressing window challenge - Mary Queen
My goal for the next two weeks, is to go through all the rewindable learning videos from all our DFI sessions
and see if I can improve my knowledge and understanding of some of the topics learnt thus far.
Whakatauki - learning to create and creating to learn
