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Week 7 - Device day, Ubiquitous

 Today I found the session on Ubiquitous Learning great as it helped me understand its meaning. The A4 idea of any time, anywhere, anyplace for anyone was what I needed as it really put it in context. When relating this to lockdown last year much of our students were not in a good space to be able to access learning in a way that we had hoped. Devices were not great and connectivity in the home was difficult. Even though I was very proud of our teachers who got their learning sites up and running in time some whānau struggled to connect with it. Device day was a real eye-opener and understanding the mahi that has gone into ensuring that the devices we use support ubiquitous learning. The 3 p’s link was great and will be something I use when discussing the term with our staff, whānau and BOT.

Using the devices our students use is a great way to see learning through another lens. The shortcut activity on the Chromebooks had me stumped at times but it made me realise how awesome some of our kids are at knowing what the technology can do. The use of ScreenCastify has built on my learning and I now have a clear idea of how this can work within my workflow and work to be done within our school website. I am not 100% confident yet to use this the way I would like but will continue to do this over the next few weeks to become more fluent.


Since our journey has begun I have had many questions about Explain Everything but did not have any answers as I had never used it. After dabbling in this today I feel that I now know a lot more about the software and how it can possibly be used. I look forward to the day when our junior students get to use ipads in this way.



In recent weeks I have had many conversations with whanau and members of our BOT around Cybersafety. Today I found that Cyber Smart is the correct term to use and that educating not only the students but whānau and BOT on this is going to be our next task. I feel that once our students grasp the understanding of being cyber smart they will develop into responsible digital citizens that know how their digital footprint should look. I found the below graphic a great way to bring this together for our BOT and tie much of what we do together in one place.



Blogging is a new journey for our school and understanding from students, teachers and whānau is going to be essential. I found this graphic below useful to support everyone when responding to a blog post. The bit I liked the most was how it reminded us all that this will contribute to our digital footprint and how we share information smartly.



I found today a real clarifier in term of bringing some of the things that I have heard about in the program together such as Explain Everything and Screen Castify. Looking forward to week 8.

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