It's hard to believe how quickly the time has gone as this is the last full day of learning... I have enjoyed the course so much more than I expected and it has been a big learning curve.
We meet with Dorothy and looked at connecting with Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa - empowered learners and teachers. It can look so different for different communities. As a single parent, I felt a real connection to the clip of the working poor
Dorothy shared a scary statistic - decile 10 chid has heard 32 000 000 more spoken words than a child from a decile 1 school. We can make progress by increasing our conversations with our learners - think of table tennis - 5+ backward and forwards. Many of our learners haven't had that. Blogging is another opportunity to practice this within writing.
Kerry Boyde-Preece then took over the role of presenting about how to empower our learners.
We unpacked the progress outcomes with various examples. We unpacked Computational Thinking and it was a lot to take on. It was a familiar concept as Mel had unpacked computational thinking at a previous staff meeting.
We looked at the future of technology and some moral dilemmas on this
site. This site created some interesting discussion about how we can view some lives as more valued than others. For me, the thought of so much artificial intelligence is scary and I worry somewhat for the future...
We registered for the exam and that was really stressful - changes have been made to the registration and it wasn't an easy process...but we got there in the end.
We spent the time after lunch to look at coding and I became more familiar with Scratch and created a short story. I really enjoy the 'play' component and find I learn best this way. Another day of learning which went so fast. Time certainly does fly when you are having fun!
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