Week 8
Cohort 2
I found the session with Dorothy on an empowered kaupapa interesting this morning. The Manaiakalani kaupapa is not only about empowering students, but also empowering teachers. The whole approach encourages reciprocal teaching and learning (ako) in a digital as well as bicultural environment.
I like the statement that technology is not just a tool for learning and teaching. It needs to be used to empower our learners.
Our own Kokatahu-Kowhitirangi School curriculum is a future-focused curriculum with the aim to empower our students for the future in all its different aspects. We focus on teaching the following learning behaviours needed for the future: reflectiveness, reciprocity (ako), resilience and resourcefulness. This aligns well with the Manaiakalani approach.
Developing computational thinking forms part of this future-focused curriculum. We have only started on this journey with one Beebot and 13 Sphero robots. Our approach will be to integrate it as far as we possibly can with the other core and non-core curriculum areas.
It is really important for teachers to develop their own digital fluency and capabilities and to adapt to teaching this new curriculum area. If we expect our students to be digitally fluent, we need to be digitally fluent teachers as well or at least resilient and resourceful problem solvers.
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. Both of these are important as part of the digital technologies curriculum.
Nga mihi
Casper
It's so great to see what you have achieved with the IT you have available in your school Casper. Some of our students thrive with this type of learning, so as you mentioned it is so important to empower them with these tools.
ReplyDeleteGood luck for your exam.
Nicola