The end of the DFI has come around fast - started with three face-to-face meetings and then we were all in lockdown and this group continued online. It's been an excellent course, supported by the daily immersion in digital technologies while teaching, meeting, socializing, shopping - all online.
I think we have a great opportunity to re-invent schooling for our secondary students. Many have thrived online. They have experienced access to resources, teacher feedback, and choice over their work time that is not always available on site at school. There are others who need face-to-face guidance and perhaps less time seated in a classroom. My future hope is see a mix of online learning, seminars, work-experience, mentoring and personalised guidance with the College as a hub of learning and development for our young people, not simply corridors of classrooms, bells, reluctant attendees and disengaged learners.
Today we sat the Level 1 Exam, and I passed so that is a bonus to finish an excellent nine days of learning with wonderful, patient facilitators and focused, generous classmates. Thank you all!
Hi Andrew. Great blog about what you have noticed about how your students have been learning from a distance. We have noticed the same thing. I think it is an exciting opportunity to think outside the square and create a new learning environment for our students - we cannot go back to the same old, same old. The DFI is great PD too.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on passing the exam Andrew. I know many of our colleagues have had great anxiety around the exam. I enjoyed my first day online and I will try to work as hard as you so that I too can pass the exam at the end of 9 weeks.
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