Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 9

Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 9 Another full on day. After these 9 weeks I can feel how much more prepared I am for embracing the Ubiquitous Learning. Technology enables removal of barriers, and it makes it possible to connect with learners, no matter if they are close or far away. The DFI course created virtually endless opportunities for me to utilize new tools in teaching.

Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 8.

Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 8 It was great to hear today how creativity empowers learning, and how digital technologies empower creativity. The device is not just a tool, indeed. The new Digital Technologies Curriculum sets the outlines for computational thinking. It is important to feel the difference between digital fluency and digital technologies. A digitally fluent person can decide when and why to use specific digital technologies to achieve a specific task or solve problems. A digitally capable person can create their own digital technologies solution. Would be great to see that students have opportunities to be innovative designers and creators of digital solutions as well. It was fun exploring coding today. I had my first experience with Minecraft, and it became clear to me why it is so popular among the children. Another successful day.

Digital Fluency Intensive, Day 7.

The main principles of being cyber smart were explained today. A very important area to cover
with my tamariki. The Kawa of Care should be something we revisit in the classroom from time to time. 

Hapara is quite a versatile tool, it’s good to know all the different things you can do with it. "Highlights"
will be very helpful in the classroom.

Exploring devices was good fun. I have managed to create a little project using the Whiteboard on
"Explain Everything".

And of course, the Screencastify. You can do a lot with this extension in terms of bringing more
multimedia content onto your website. Something like this.