Todays session was focussed on the importance of 'Visibility' and the new and unique opportunity we now have in education to use technology to allow ubiquitous access.
Prior to being visible there was a measure of how well you could 'read the teachers mind' and interpret what the teacher was expecting or where they were heading.
Technology has given us the ability to completely expose the learning and have no surprises. Implicit and critical in this is that the learner must be at the centre of the learning and therefore every part of the learning process should be exposed to the learner.
We are lucky enough to have Hapara - 'making teaching and learning visible' as a management system to help ensure visibility for the teacher.
As part of the analysis of effective practise in Manaiakalani schools Stuart McNaughton wrote" Their use of class sites to make learning and teaching visible further supported student agency ..."
Applying Multi Modal Learning
As educators, our job is to strive to make learning engaging, and exciting for our students. In Manaiakalani we have termed this the Hook and know that hooking our learners in is essential. We need to keep asking "Is what we are doing in class engaging?" ... Will it “hook” them into the learning and what we want them to experience?" We need to be working to inspire our kids to go in and investigate further and using the affordances of technology allows us an enhanced ability to do this effectively. So we spent the rest of the afternoon looking at some great examples of sites and learning activities that have a range of multi modal texts and activities and then had a go at creating our own.
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