Anne Sinclair

Manaiakaialani Digitial Teacher Academy First day of Digital Immersion and working together What a wonderful first day for the Academy and sharing an understanding of how important the Digital world is to our learners. Ten new teachers came together and demonstrated enthusiasm, creativity, willingness, wholeheartedness and wanting to learn everything to help our learners in Manaiakalani to be world citizens. We are so lucky that we are all on the same page.

After years of 'learning' music I have just spent 3 days 'unlearning' a traditional method of teaching music and had a world of patterns opened up for me to explore music in a different way. I relate this to what we do in Manaiakalani, where we have shown learners a different learning pathway. The excitement, puzzlement, but discipline, practice and choice, generated for me in this workshop, an urge to want to grasp the ideas, wrestle with them and make them my own.  How exciting it is to realise there are other ways to learn.  So, every new learner starting today in a new class or starting school for the first time I hope you have this same excitement that I have.