Devices

Today at DFI, our guest facilitator was Lenva, who works 4 days a week for Hapara and the other day for Manaiakalani.

We refer to Cybersmart rather than Cyber Safe to teach our kids how to live in the world rather than be scared in the world. We want our kids to know how to deal with things as they come up and how to keep their own footprint as clean as they can.
One of the most important aspects of the kaupapa is that it is visible. It's all transparent and open.

Smart Learners 

It's about being able to tackle different programmes and tackle different parts. Students learn the kawa of care, which is about teaching them to be responsible for their own device and who has access. It's crucial for the culture of looking after the tools for learning. Many assume that our learners know how to use the devices; however, they know how to use them in a different context. Often in a gaming "play/toy" context.

Smart Footprint. 

Term 2. The Create Term.
This is where our learners begin to be seen. What do they want people to know about you? How do you want people to see you?

Smart Relationships. 

Students interacting with the rest of the world. How do we speak on our (and others) blogs? If it's not positive, thoughtful or helpful then we are not going to say it. Authentic audiences and buddy class blogs encourage us to do this too.

Hapara - Making Learning Visible.

Hapara allows us to focus on teaching rather than technology. Hapara is not really about monitoring and filtering. It's about supporting the teaching. The focus browsing and Filter sessions are for those few individuals who need extra support.

Some key tools:

• Sharing: All unshared documents, even those in folders.
• All Docs: Every document created.
• The only thing you cant see is empty trash, because who really does that?
• Filter Session: The opposite to Focus session. You can identify the sites you don't want them to go to. 
• Comments: Shows all comments made and received by that student.

Workspaces. It can be embedded into the class site. Units can be visible to some students and not others. You can control what they see. They submit it back to the teacher.

Tamaki College is currently undertaking all of their NCEA exams within a focus browsing session and students submit their work upon completion.

Chromebooks

It was all about finding the best device for learning for EVERY young person.

Partnership

• Ownership of the Chromebook is a partnership. Often it becomes a family tool. Thus it is not only empowering students but whanau as well. They look after the device better if they own it, rather than when it's a school-owned device.
  

Participation

• Bringing the device to school every day charged.
• Because they are all using the same device, it empowers the teachers to work confidently with them.

Protection

• It should be seamless. Everything should just happen and be visible.
• The important things are behind the scenes.
• By teaching a Cybersmart curriculum then we are assisting students to make good choices about what to do when things go awry.

Its a really good idea to go through the Digital Dig so that you know how to assist students with workflow.

Check it out here

iPads

Apple Classroom works similar to Hapara, but for iPads.

It's vital that the routines are established right at the beginning. If they are established young, then they have them for life.

Visible Teaching and Learning

By embedding a link to your Explain Everything on a slide, you can put in easily on your slide.

To view on your Mac, download the Explain Everything Viewer (which sits in your Appa)

Screencastify

We created a Screencastify on how to use a tool. I took the opportunity to create one to share the differences between Onetab and Mini Toby, which we looked at a couple of weeks ago when covering Workflow. My learners use this easily and happily. As adults, I think we are often hesitant to record ourselves. There are so many uses for this tool.