Digital Fluency for Kaiako

Ko te ahurei o te tamaiti arahina ō tātou mahi

Let the uniqueness of the child guide our work

Digital Fluency for RTLB and or Kaiako

In 2023, our cluster did an MOE PLD project focused on Digital Fluency with our facilitator, Iain Cook-Bonney.  The goals we achieved are below.  Scroll to the bottom of the page if you are interested in being a Certified Level 1 Google Practitioner, or ask your Liaison RTLB about it.

We are also lucky to have Iain, who can support us in schools for kaiako/ākonga.  This can look like LSF support, but we bring Iain in instead.

Goal 1

Raise digital fluency skills and confidence for at-risk and neurodiverse learners to increase engagement in classroom programmes that traditional means cannot support:

• Raise capability of students to use digital tools to their full potential across the curriculum, while supporting teachers and RTLB to open up new possibilities to support this. 

• Improve computational thinking skills (algorithmic thinking, decomposition, pattern recognition) and embed these across the wider curriculum.

Goal 2

Increasing expectations of staff working with at risk students so they are better able to meet the needs of learners.

• Undertaking practitioner research into how digital technologies can increase engagement and inclusive practices for learners and teachers.

• Gathering student and teacher voice to measure impact of interventions, so students ‘see themselves’ as active and positive learners.

Online Courses For Micro-Credentials 

As part of our journey, all RTLB will be undertaking Google Educator Level 1 training. There are also options to explore Microsoft Educator and Apple Teacher programmes.

You can click the images below to access these online courses.