DFI 9 - Revision

Today's Blog was titled Revision.
Time out was taken to reflect on where we had come from, the various gems we had picked up on the way and the whole journey with the Manaiakalani Facilitators throughout this nine week course of Digital Fluency. This was once again demonstrated in our Digital Bubbles where we were able to feedback on what had worked well over the week including any difficult areas of concern.

Following this we had a presentation of the Manaiakalani Kaupapa on Ubiquitous by Dorothy.

  The message which I received from this presentation is that life long learners need digital devices to tap into learning about anything and everything. There are a variety of resources and tools which can accompany ones learning if we all but use what is available and learn from the different aspects and experts who live and breathe this methodology and pedagogy. And from the slide it shows:

The rest of the morning was focussed on sitting the Google Exam which was very intense and 3 hours long. Reflecting over the test: If I had a chance to resit which I will probably need to I would first complete the questions which I am familiar with first and then return to those which I would need more time to complete. A'e that seems to bring back memories of sitting exams way back in the days when we had strategies on how to sit exams. Some dinosaur ideas still remain and are useful in the 21st century and with digital and online testing!

1. The thing I am most proud of is that I was able to implement my new learning into my teaching practice having to change the way I think and present to my learners who were already on their way with being streaks ahead of me in their digital fluency.
2. One of the things I regret is not strategising the way I sat the exam. As mentioned previously I should have attempted all the questions I knew first and then returned to the rest of the more difficult ones to spend more time on.
3. I will be taking a lot of gems from the whole of this course. The positivity and empowerment seen throughout the weeks, the pedagogies and the challenges that we face with learners growing as future leaders of tomorrow in both the real and digital world.
4. Loads and Loads of ideas, tools, aspects, rules, processes will be taken forward into the 'new' era of schooling. I think the thinking process of learning anywhere anytime with anyone as written in the Ubiquitous slide is the new schooling for me. And also the learning as a shared network where tools are available for all! On that note here are some of the tools which were shared from the last session of today.