THURSDAY, 23 AUGUST 2018
Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive - Week 5
One of the key words that was prominent for me when presented with the google slides around Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa was "ENGAGEMENT IN THE NZ CURRICULUM". What is the intrinsic motivation a student needs in order to engage in the learning, creating and sharing process? "When a student is intrinsically motivated they engage in tasks for the pleasure and satisfcation it provides (Tuckman & Monetti, 2011, Ryan & Deci, 2000, Stipek 2002). Students are naturally inclined to look for opportunities that develop their competences, autonomy and relatedness (Stipek, 2002). So what comptences, autonony and relatedness are they experiencing in the classroom when using digital technology under the umbrella of "learn, create and share?" This was a behaviour that I was particularly interested in this week.
This week we constructed a multi-modals which was really exciting to see evolve as we added layers of surprises under the pictures. We then added this to a shared google drawing so it became a collaborative collection of multi-modals that was created, with learning embedded into the units and shared to the group. Some of us put together a digital modelling book with planning embedded it the pages to replace the traditional planning kept in planning books or in a file on our drives. Wow! suddenly the learning, creating and sharing becomes VISIBLE. Visibility fosters competence, autonomy and relatedness by strengthening links between whanau and school, more time to develop a dyadic relationship, supports teachers to know where their are, allowing us to foster competence and facilitate autonomy.
One of the questions that I asked as the beginning of this course was "Where do we find the time to blog, check blogs, reply to blogs while meeting the demands of the NZ Curriculum". Well, when you save time planning using digital technology, when the children are highly engaged in the NZ Curriculum, and they are developing independence by the way the teaching is presented to them, THEN THE PERSONAL LIFE HAS MORE TIME TO BE ENJOYED.