Week 5 Collaboration - Is the learning visible or not?

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 I really enjoyed today learning about the pedagogy behind the learning sites - is the learning visible or not? A really simple question and one that I have used to look at our existing learning site. The answer - not all learning is visible and this is probably due to a number of factors - none of which are irreversible! 

Great to hear about the behavioural engagement with the site and also the cognitive engagement - will the children be attracted to the site and want to engage with it?  Will the content keep them there and challenge them, support them and enhance their learning? 

I had previously used the multimodal text approach with year 3 and 4's - now being back with New Entrant and Year 1 children it was so useful to talk through with Latham about how to transfer that to very early reading. Of course so much easier when someone who has used it gives you examples that have worked in the classroom!

So below is my addition to the multimodal spreadsheet using a book I will be teaching next week. 



It was reassuring to be able to start with one text - we read 4 a week and I want to introduce this to my team to inspire them to create slides that we can share on the site and of course use with the children. 

Using Sites to share this and starting one from scratch was great - as discussed this usually only happens for the beginning of the year and so great to learn some shortcuts to creating buttons and inserting docs, slides, drawings etc from the drive - I was going through the side menu but double-clicking on the page gives a wee circular pop up menu - very cool! 

Lots of great tips on making sites engaging so children don't have to scroll down the page to find things - not too much text, embedding videos so they don't open up new tabs which can be confusing - I'm listing them so I can come back to this post when I need the info again!

I also had a go with the extension to record to slides to video myself giving an instruction - so much potential for this and something I will look at using more often. 

Hopefully I have created a link that will take you to my trial site!!

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  1. Latham MartinAugust 21, 2020 at 6:42 PM

    Kia ora Rachael,

    Your learners are so lucky to have you as their teacher - look at all of the amazing learning opportunities you have created for them! I really like how you have made explicit connects with the Manaiakalani kaupapa and your practice, it is great to see. You are always willing to give new learning a go. The resources that you have added to the Multi-text database will be a big support for other teachers and students. Thank you so much for that!

    Have a restful week and see you Friday,

    Latham

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