Understanding MAPIC

 Today at the Leader of Learning day we were lucky enough to be able to have Naomi, from Wolfe Fischer through Auckland University, talk to us about her latest research. Her research is centred around Student Design for Learning: Digital Create with DLO's to support T-Shaped Literacy and High Leverage Practices (HLPs).

We started off looking at our shared understanding of DLO in only 20 words.

MAPIC - is the new acronym - that got us thinking about our current practise and about how we can amplify learning through student creating DLO's using a range of media that the students best choose in order to inform/teach others through their blog.

This should come as no surprise. So the question becomes what can we do to encourage the other media in DLO's ...

Slides are the default and it is not wrong but in the Learn Create Share pedagogy we could place slides in the learn part. What if the children were then forced to think of a different way of creating/sharing learning without using slides. (It would be ok to include animations, graphic etc once made onto a slide.)

Blogs should be a forum for conversation.

Even though 85% were slide presentations, 40% were the teachers slides where children had just put in the writing to the teachers slides.

The biggest thing for me is around the creation of space within  the week/term in order to provide the children with the space to do this with the support of a checklist. I would also need to be able to bring my teaching partner on board with this because there would have to be some explicit teaching around some of the media modes to be successful. That would be an interesting conversation.