Visibility is an important element of the Manaiakalani Kaupapa, effective online visible learning has the potential to be a game changer for students. In order for learning to be visible online it needs to be; accessible, available to the learner and be able to be given in advance.
Hapara has the potential to 'make teaching and learning visible'. It gives us a visibility lens, essentially we can 'look into each child's desk' through giving us access to all students work online.
Blogging is another fantastic way to make our teaching visible. Blogging enables teachers, other students and whānau access to students blogs. Furthermore, the skills taught with blogging teaches students to be responsible digital citizens. The visibility blogger allows for provides huge writing gains throughout the year for learners.
Google Sites provide the ideal platform in ensuring our learning for our students is visible. When our learners have their own devices and the teacher uses Google Sites, this is the ideal way to provide access to learning for students. But why Google Sites? Google Sites are; visible and accessible, enable learning available outside school hours, extend learning through collaboration, provides rewindable content, fostering higher motivation and engagement.
While digital technology and online learning provides many great opportunities for learning there are concerns that come with it, especially in regards to visibility for whānau. We need to ensure that we are not locking parents out of the learning process i.e. years ago parents had access to exercise books - we need to ensure that our online learning is accessible and visibility to parents. This is something we need to continually consider when working online. A takeaway I have taken away from this session is to continually reflect and reassess my class site to ensure that it is visible and accessible to not only my students but also to my colleagues and students whānau.
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