We began the our final day with Dorothy and another insight into the Manaiakalani pedagogy. Today ~ Ubiquitous Learning. The word 'Ubiquitous' has certainly been a new word for me in these last few years. What does it mean? Put very simply - "present, appearing, or found everywhere." So then, what is ubiquitous learning? It's learning anywhere, anytime, anyplace, from anyone. Distance learning certainly fast tracked us on that journey!
Ubiquitous learning goes hand in hand with Rewindable Learning. Another new-ish term for me. We talk a lot about this concept and the importance of it through a Learn, Create, Share lens. Again this is something I struggle to get my head around and I've chatted to a few colleagues over the years about it; particularly in the junior school. To be completely honest, I'm not sure I have a clear grasp on what rewindable learning should/could ideally look like in a junior setting... YET. I employ multi-modal learning opportunities (only in reading at present), 75% of our learning is accessible via our class site... is there more to it than that?
We discussed the following points with Kelsey in our small bubbles - "Reflecting on the kaupapa of the Manaiakalani programme in light of Covid-19, and your readiness for rewindable learning... What are you most proud of? What do you regret? What have you taken forward into the 'new' era of learning?"
My reflections on those questions and my own burning questions...
- I'm grateful to Covid-19 for throwing me head first into the deep end and pushing me to step outside of my digital-comfort zone. But what am I proud of...?
- If there was to be Lockdown: Season 2, I'd enjoy the opportunity to put my new skills into action. But otherwise, I have 'no regerts' at all around what we did in Season 1.
- How much, and what aspects of learning should be rewindable?
- What is the purpose of making it visible/rewindable if my Year 2 tamariki don't require access to that particular material on more than 1-2 occasions?
- Even if they are accessing material on multiple occasions, why does it need to be all be through our site?
- Unless we go in to Season 2, why does a junior child need to access learning from home? I would hate to think my cherubs were sitting in front of a device doing more mahi after school hours - although they are sitting in front of a device for far too long after school, and it's spent playing Fortnight or watching Tiktok.
- Everything on my site is visible to whānau at home - How many would look at this at home with their tamaiti?
I recall our staff sat down together and shared ideas around how our teaching would change post-lockdown back in May. I don't believe my teaching has changed at all as a result. Although I'm certainly ready for the next wave, should it hit. Everything was visible beforehand. What we did during lockdown was certainly not what I'd ideally do in the classroom, or outside of a pandemic, by any means. But that begs the question - am I missing something? To be continued I think....
So, the real fun began at 10am when I logged into the Google Level 1 Certification exam. For 3 hours straight I furiously clicked, copied, and pasted, and wracked my brain for any memories of how to use the plethora of Google apps that we'd spent 9 weeks prior learning about. I look forward to getting my results - which I was a bit disappointed to learn will take 14 days to process. Must say, it was an amazing feeling to click 'submit' at the end of it all.
After lunch we had a 30 minute Slam presented by all the facilitators. This was to load us up with some last minute tips, tricks, and apps that hadn't been included during the previous weeks. Some good stuff in here!
My goals going forward are...
- Use ScratchJR for pepeha - this looks like a really fun way to display pepeha and whakapapa.
- Play round with a Google Forms - lost track of how long I've been saying that.
- Meet with the Learn, Create, Share team to discuss a plan forward for blog commenting.
- Take a moment to reflect, and look back over the past 9 posts.
- Can I implement 1 new learning each week? Each fortnight?
Ngā mihi nunui ki te whānau Manaiakalani! Special thanks to Kelsey for all your support! I look forward to moving forward with a bursting kete matauranga!
Ngā manaakitanga.
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