Manaiaakalani PD T2 28/05/2019

Create to Learn
Creativity Empowers Learning
Digital Technologists Empower Learning

Engage Students with Digital Technologies
Empower Students
Provide Authentic Audiences

Learning by doing and engaging in higher order thinking.
Creating provides students with an opportunity to reflect and compare.

Learn Create Share is a reiterative process.

Te Hiku Create to Learn Staff meeting Term 2 2019


Good example for learning opportunity!
Scenario, Set video parameters
Simple scene
Shoot video
Critique discuss five cinematic techniques that could have been improved,
Critique discuss different ways we could change the genre

What ways can we create learning objects that demonstrate learning with our school curriculum?

Reflection on the Afternoon.
I initially had misgivings that this would be a Manaaiakalani lets do 'death by google slides presentation' but was pleasantly surprised by the meeting as a whole. The Create focus for the presentation was good but for me the task and learn part (making a video) was informative and fun.
How would this impact on my Practice?
I think the biggest thing I got out of this and something that is closely aligned with my own developing thinking regarding curriculum knowledge and learning (the essential premise being that learning is a social practice and it needs to be reiterative in order for learning to be metacognitive). Working from a relatively unscripted learning opportunity (in our case a 90 second video) students can be encouraged to understand that there are multiple learning outcomes for any given situation. In the case of the video just the technical learning opportunities were huge, add into this the literary, dialogue, language, social and interactive skills required make this a fertile area for study. With further reflection on my earlier notes I believe I would have to say I find the "fun" aspect could and is often a bit misleading, perhaps the word should have been challenging. Challenge is also a necessary ingredient along with social and reiterative?
(Lev Vygotsky and Social Learning Theories,ND, Learning Theories Website)