Online Digital Fluency Intensive: week 1

For term 3 of 2020 I was asked to take part as a coach for the Online Digital Fluency Intensive. This is Professional Development offered to teachers who work within a Manaiakalani Outreach School. It is a fantastic opportunity to join a professional learning group to learn together, following a programme designed to meet these four key goals:

• Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools our young people use for learning
• Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools required for effective teaching, planning, assessment and professional learning
• Our teachers are supported to understand how digital technologies used effectively can have a significant impact on accelerating achievement outcomes
• Our teachers are supported to understand how the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa has been co-constructed over more than a decade to maximise the impact of effective teaching and learning in a digital learning environment. https://dfi.manaiakalani.org/

I am working with 5 teachers in a 'digital bubble'. They are from different schools and different year levels all across New Zealand. 

It was a full-on first day, but highly enjoyable. They learned lots of new things and I did too.