Ubiquitous - carries the idea that learning takes places outside of the traditional school/classroom in the digital era.
The evidence for the power of Ubiquitous learning is clearly displayed in the Summer Learning Journey reports from Manaiakalani. It showed young people learning over the holidays with no teacher present. Their term 1 progress/achievement was carefully matched with non-bloggers and showed a very clear difference between the two groups.
It was hugely interesting to see how students who posted activities on their blog more than twice a week, on average had significantly larger gains in reading and writing than student who posted less frequently. I get excited thinking about the potential successes and gains that can be made in literacy for our Ahipara school students who are starting out on their Manaiakalani journey. How keeping up their blogging practices over the summer holidays could mean success for them on return to school.
The evidence for the power of Ubiquitous learning is clearly displayed in the Summer Learning Journey reports from Manaiakalani. It showed young people learning over the holidays with no teacher present. Their term 1 progress/achievement was carefully matched with non-bloggers and showed a very clear difference between the two groups.
It was hugely interesting to see how students who posted activities on their blog more than twice a week, on average had significantly larger gains in reading and writing than student who posted less frequently. I get excited thinking about the potential successes and gains that can be made in literacy for our Ahipara school students who are starting out on their Manaiakalani journey. How keeping up their blogging practices over the summer holidays could mean success for them on return to school.
Google+
I learnt about ‘Google+’ today and how Google+ communities can raise you professional profile and extend your personal learning networks. Google+ is an Internet-based social network that is owned and operated by Google.
Google+ can help you to connect to others that share the same passion with ‘Communities’, and also help you keep those interests separate with Circles. You can have separate circles for work and personal. You can also control the amount of content you want to see from each community in ‘my feed’ in each community's settings. If I want to see lots of horses and not a lot of gardening pictures, then that's what I will see.
Even though today is our last Digital Fluency Intensive, it would be great to keep blogging and stay connected with the group and share our teaching and ideas. This will be the perfect opportunity to stay connected with such knowledgeable teachers who all share the same passion in education and are always looking for new and exciting ways to teach our future generations.
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