DFI Session 5

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• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Creating an inclusive, differentiated approach to teaching in a digital learning environment made me stop and think about what I am currently doing and how I can adapt it to suit my learners. There are so many different ways that learning can be presented and I think that especially from the home learning period I have gotten to know my students and how they like to learn. This was through slides and having choices. After today's session, I was able to identify the barriers that could be involved in the way I am presenting the learning and how to change or remove these to make it simple and accessible for each group/student. Looking at some of the examples of how others present their learning and how it is changed over time from other schools I found that there are ways I can now move forward and add to it.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

As a professional, I found that I was able to build on my knowledge when using sites. At first, I wanted to just add to my class site but actually starting from scratch again helped me to understand how to use each aspect to its full advantage. Creating subpages and linking these to buttons was a helpful tip to go over as well as knowing to know that I can put images in a carousel and also how to use the collapsable text, those are options I had never looked at or used before. Going over these things will help me to wizz through my site when adding learning or making changes and to be able to guide others.

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Reading resource- I want to extend some of my reading groups so this discussion today around how to present it was fantastic. I liked the range of activities and the way it was presented. I am going to add this to my planning when I can have our Chromebooks up and running fully.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I was able to see how I like to view and learn. I appreciate the small design details in life and the extra step to make it look appealing to the eye. These sessions have made me excited to now use digital tools in my personal life as well as work-life e.g designing cards, posters or art.