Empowered was the key word for today's Manaiakalani Pedagogy and Kaupapa. The word empowered has been used by Manaikalani in place of the word agency as it is more relatable to people.
Empowerment comes with challenges. There are barriers to being empowered and having the power of choice, amongst others it could be lack of money or health issues.
If we can teach 5+A day to our learners where they get an opportunity to have 5 interactions or conversations this will help to build their oral language skills. This could be built into writing blog comments and replying to blog comments.
Equity is also an important aspect of empowerment where everyone works together and families invest and become partners in education.
The Deep Dive by Vicki on the Future of Technology was an eye opener to see how rapidly breakthrough technologies are being created. Behind all these technologies lies the ethics and moral issues. Teachers should be having conversations with their learners about these issues.
The Technology Curriculum enables young people to become digitally fluent and they can decide when and why they need to use digital technology to solve problems. They also become digitally capable by creating their own digital technology solutions. By exploring through the Technology Curriculum, I have a better understanding of computational thinking and progress outcomes and will be able to teach students to write and give instructions for others to follow.
Given the opportunity to explore coding and computational thinking made me aware of the different coding apps I could use with my students. I know that my students will love using kodable where they need to sequence codes to do a beach cleanup.
My Scratch Junior project with Kelsey.
Ka pai Anne. I agree that the 5-a-day idea is a great way to encourage deeper conversations. I find the moral machine activity really interesting too. I wonder when these driver-less cars will become commonplace! Your Scratch Jnr project looks good. Do you know how to embed it on your blog?
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