Seuga's Professional Blog

  Plenty of learning taking place after being away from the group, but an abundance of learning today and knowledge being share by our three facilitators. Today’s topic was critical thinking in our reading. We were reminded of the Four C’s implemented into  21st  century skills of Critical Thinking Communication Creativity and Collaboration. It was interesting to revisit the Manaiakalani Cybersmart Programme, the relationships still enforced between teachers, parents and learners where the outcome is for being cybersmart empowers learners as connected, digital citizens and confident decision makers.  The reason we were learning about critical thinking not only because it is mentioned in the curriculum and it makes our learned smarter to be reading information critical and also being digitally competent.  And learning more about AI, Gemini app and NotebookLM and the powerful set of AI apps available to our schools. We were using Infographics in our senior classes...

  Vocabulary and Decoding Fortunately after changing times and dates for this catch we were able to meet today Wataka 5 during a non-contact and learn more about the session which I missed because I was attending ToD June 19. This is always one of my favourite topics and that is how to inspire students to learn new words after choosing a book of their choice. Learning new words, sounding them out, understanding the meanings and reusing these new words in conversation or to learn more about Vocabulary and Decoding. Here are a few of the slides which I managed to save and share as I discovered that these are all useful activities to implement into class lessons which will encourage and challenge our akonga to learn. There are small notes which I made as I was listening to Kiri explain as we went along.  Hyperbole Place holder definition Hit the vocabulary so that they can embed the new words Connections game generated for our own learners https://connectionsplus.io/create  ...