Dani's Reflective Journal 2022

Today was a fun and interesting day focussing on Create Tasks. I feel like my students' digital skills are really coming along now and I’m excited to allow them more choice in their create tasks and tools.  AI tools are something I’ve been thinking and researching about lately and the importance of our students being able to use these not only for learning tasks at school but also to allow them the opportunity to understand how others are using them. I think it’s essential for our learners to understand these tools more because they need to be able to look at things with a critical lens more now than ever before (e.g. AI to generate photos of themselves doing something that isn’t or hasn’t actually happened). And what better way to do that than to get them using them!  Creating the One Shot Film was tricky and I cheated using three separate clips. I felt really nervous and had so many takes so this is something I need to keep working on to develop confidence. I really enjoyed...

 Today was an excellent reminder of the ways we can engage learners in critical thinking. I especially liked the idea of providing students with provocation statements to allow students to form their own opinions and listen to other people's points of view along with their reasons. Students have lots of opportunities in our DMIC maths programme so it'll be good to get this going more in literacy.  We are about to begin a unit on narrative texts and I'd like to delve deep into the author's portrayal of characters with the 'Big Bad Wolf' being the common character of discussion. I know there are a lot of rich and enjoyable texts to support this and students should have quite a bit of prior knowledge on subject.  I'm hoping to bring back De Bono's Thinking Hats and design some modern digital reading responses and create tasks using these as a scaffold. I think we are so overwhelmed with the number of resources out there that some of these older scaffolds ar...