DFI Day 4 part 2

Once again a full on day. This is not a good set up for my ADHD brain I have to be honest so there is some work for me to do around that.

I have used sheets before but it was fabulous to have a chance to revisit and reacquaint, along with adding more knowledge. I especially like turning data into graphs.

I can’t remember how to toggle and I don’t have brain space. I will add that to my list of things to double back and revisit.  – see next note 🫢

Note to self : have a second screen. The meet covers too much of the screen which becomes obstructive and things get lost, or more accurately, missed.

Key takeaway not ‘I’m finished’ but ‘I’m ready to share’

Workflow Day 2

I love acronyms. They are one of my favourite tools to help me remember.

So today we got RATs, Recognise, Amplify and Turbocharge. This speaks strongly to my focus on effective practice, that is, it doesn’t matter what the flavour of the month is (from a curriculum perspective), nor how flash the school is, nor the access or not to devices or museums or money. If we don’t have good teacher practice at the heart of it all, then the wizz bang is just window dressing. A wise kaumatua said recently, if there is a hole in the roof, you don’t change the colour of the carpet. If we don’t have effective practice, the rest doesn’t really matter for teaching and learning.

That being said, how amazing can our practice be if we strengthen and enhance with the tools we are being provided with.

I am looking forward to seeing things like calendars and email across the kura become more unified and for all of us to use the features better.

Unfortunately the frustration today was that I (and my whole kura) are still unable to record a google meet. This is not a PICNIC issue but rather an absence of the capacity in Google in our school. We have people working on it so watch this space….or another space at some time in the future

Core Business Day 1

What a day. My brain has had quite a workout and a return to reality with a thump!

I really enjoyed hearing more about the history of Manaiakalani from Dorothy. In particular gaining better understanding of the name. There has been some push-back here in our MM and Bilingual school regarding using an Hawaiian name, but I feel more confident being able to explain how it came about.

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There is lots I already know, or was reminded I already knew even if I haven’t used it for a while. That really helped it to be less daunting. I really feel for the kaiako for whom digital tools are new or the google platform is not something commonly used in their kura.

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I really thought that working from school would be useful to help me to focus, but a closed door is not enough to stop staff wanting my time, and infact they just txt or messaged so might work from home on Friday after all. Something I will have to work hard to ensure doesn’t become a minus is the time to ‘tutu’ and practice. It will be easy to let (waves arms wildly in the air) take up all of the air in the room so I need to make a conscious effort to continue the mahi

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While there was much I already knew, the nuance and using the tools at a deeper and more refine level is something i need to spend time on. Like anything, the use will be infinitely important, to both embed but also reinforce the learning journey. I’m not the only one who needs to clean up my files. This is an ongoing battle that my ADHD brain constantly fights itself over. Too many tabs, too many docs, not enough organisation. Consider it a work in progress

And here is my screenshot. Also a work in progress

 

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