Day 8 DFI Manaiakalani

CYBERSMART

Being Cybersmart is a key landmark in Manaiakalani's pedagogy. Though it goes fairly in-depth, the following are the heavy focus for the first three terms:

- Smart Learners: Term 1
- Smart Footprint: Term 2
- Smart Relationships: Term 3

Digital Dig

As Educators, it's important to learn about Chromebooks and Ipads since our learners use them on a regular basis for their learning. 'Digital Dig' is a short workshop developed by Manaiakalani to help students improve their shortcut skills on their Chromebook to make learning more efficient. Below are some of the positives and negatives I found while working with the Chromebook over a short period of time.

Positives:

- Relatively Fast

- Quick shortcuts (if you know them)

- Privacy for students (GTS is capable of only allowing them to use the GTS wifi)

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Negatives:

- Too many shortcuts (would take a long time to learn)

- Not too many applications available (or not readily available) 

- Buttons on the keyboard at the top tend to be a little confusing.

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Despite the positives and negatives, what's important is the learner's capability of participating, engaging and becoming more digitally fluent.

Below is my video using the Chrome Extension 'Screencastify' talking about Manaiakalani's pedagogy regarding a Smart Footprint when it comes to surfing the web. It's critical as a learner and an educator to leave a positive digital footprint.






Goodluck to everyone writing the Google Educator exam next week!! :)