Some main points from today:
Ubiquitous Learning
- Knowing that children can learn from anywhere at any time from anyone.
- Learning is rewindable and students always have access to repeat the learning if needed.
- Students who are well off are exposed to 30,000,000 more words than those who are not.
- Digital technology has the power to remove barriers to learning.
DFI Demo Slam:
- Body Synth - Dancing
- Brush Ninja - Creating GIFs through drawing - using paint tools to draw different pictures
- Semi-Conductor - conduct an orchestra through your browser
- Google Earth - Exploring and creating projects they can share with others
- Auto Draw - good for those not good at drawing. Predicts what you are going to draw and gives suggestions
- Music Lab - Turning Art into Music. Choosing different instruments and creating different sounds.
- Trusted contacts - Google app for mobile. Allows to share with trusted people where you are for safety reasons.
- Smart commenting - Sentence starters for making good comments
- Meet Extensions - Google meet enhancement suite, Google Meet push to talk, Meet virtual background. Meet party Button, Meet attendance.
- Google Trends - Dynamic, changes and shows what's being searched all around the world.
- Read and Write for Google Chrome - for learners who need support. Accessibility functions. Paid versions has more functions. The website can be read to you, remove ads.
- Flubaroo - Grade and analyse Google sheets. Can mark for you. Highlights areas of need.
- Sing like Freddy/Freddy Meter - Karaoke on Steroids?! Analyses your voice to see how well you are in tune.
- Getting Minecraft characters using Google Sheets.
- Rapid Doc Creation
- Google Arts and Culture - Accessible from laptop. Engaged with Arts and culture experiment. Tour art museums. Art Camera - See details of art work. Download app - take selfies and can match your face to a portrait that looks more like you.
- DFI fun and games
- Tangrams using google drawings - Create and complete Tangrams
- Phet University - Maths science interactive simulations and can add to a blog.
- Okay Go Sandbox - Highly recommended - great for STEM. Takes aspects of all topics.
- Kupu - Appstore. Take a photo of an object and it comes up for the maori word for it.