Barry H Professional Blog

I agree that it's important that students have opportunities to be innovative designers and creators of digital solutions – moving beyond solely being users and consumers of digital technologies. In Hub Mako this is one of our mantuans - be a creator not a consumer ! To become a creator we must first build our digitally fluence as both teachers and learners.  One thing that has had me thinking is what is a student digital learning object?  “Digital entity or content object using ‘different media modalities (and often interactivity) to represent data, information, reality, concepts and ideas…designed to afford educational reuse" (Churchill, 2007) I was lucky enough to attend a Leaders of Manaiakalani hui this past week. We delved into some learning around digital learning object DLO and Student Design for Learning SDL. If your not sure what these are about please ask your Manaiakalani facilitator they'll be able to put you straight. It was a great session which challenged ...

Since the beginning of time schools have had an audience of   one another the class the school the local community Now in the digital age our audience is global -  The term authentic audiences is often a priority in progressive pedagogy, finding audiences outside of the teacher and classroom in the hopes of making the learning real and relevant. By sharing digital assemblies, your audience is choosing to view, engage and celebrate with our learners thus making the learning authentic. Below is an example of a digital assembly that I created to share with our GisInt community  

Welcome to my professional learning blog. This is a place where I can reflect on my Teaching as Inquiry goals and how they link to the Education Council's Standards for the Teaching Profession