Day 4- Dealing with Data

 Tohatoha/ share was the pedagogy kopu of the day.

'Sharing sustains relationships' is a quote from the day that is transferable across a multitude of context.

This week learning was conducted around, google forums, google spreadsheets and google maps.

Google forums is a great way to find out information from students and whanau, whilst having the option of making it anonymous or  having names on response forms. Google sheets has the potential to reduce  double handling of data that currently happens within our school. With data, people seem to have their prefered ways of managing it. 

Google forums are a tool I will use within my classroom throughout the year, either as a review of learning, review of reading tasks or wanting to find information about how students learn best within my classroom. 

Click on this link to fill in the forum I created about teaching in our DFI session today

Today I created a google Map of interesting places around my community that I would suggest for people to visit if they were to come to Gisborne...

Google Sheets:

Freezing, averaging and finding sums. These are all useful tools when using google sheets within the classroom. Being able to order data by average, first or surnames are all tips to make data collection and interpreting easier.  Sum is a easy way to add columns up without having to use any formulas like the old spreadsheets from the past.

Conditional planning- monitoring students progress and completion of learning tasks, this is a easy way to monitor students within the classroom.  

Here is a simple analysis I did of 4 students at random and the amount of quality blog posts they completed in 2020.

Fun Learning...

Cool site- fast.com to check the internet speed... this is something  I will use often when my classroom is all on their devices, and also when I'm at home on the farm to keep data to then contact our provider who says there is nothing wrong with the farm internet (even tho it cut out regularly) 

DFI DAY 3- MEDIA

Creating with the intention of hooking and engaging learners.

Creative skills help learners become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators. Teachers need to focus on their creativity to engage learners and encourage them to express their ideas in a creative/ individual way.

Youtube- students should not have their own youtube channels, but teachers need playlists to share information safely for students. Making sure playlists are unlisted so students do not access the wrong things at the wrong time.  

Digital media holds a range of opportunities and pitfalls for education.What is encouraging to see is the creativity and passion that educators across mediums have. Learners love Youtube, and so do I as an educator. Creating playlists and using them as links for learning helps to engage learners. I tend to get a range of clips for my learners, from fun songs, educational videos and videos with cartoons to help keep learners engaged.

SiSoMo, Drop n Drag, Pick a Path are all ways of getting creative with slides that may help learners make connections with curriculum content. It was good to be reminded what I know and have the time to play.

I currently use google slides for majority of my classroom planning, its great as you can duplicate slides and adjust them for each weeks learning tasks, but also have the other weeks learning still there to go back and remind students of learning that has already happened. This is also great for whanau to connect and engage with classroom learning as it is visible on the classroom site.

Google drawing is a great tool to get students to engage and be creative with, I use this within my classroom in reading for students who are not confident in their writing to instead draw their understanding and reflection of the story they have read. To make this effective for my tamariki in the classroom, I need to keep encouraging the use of this but maybe inserting a podcast of a verbal recording of their understanding to sit next to their drawings.

This is the town I also created using google slide, exploring shapes and how slides can be used as a creative math learning task for students. This is a tool I will be using in my classroom to challenge learners with their creative measurement and shape learning.

DFI Day 2

 Workflow....

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

The framework of the house, all must be taken seriously for success for diversity across education facilities. Ako, Hanga and Tohatoha- Learn, Create, Share.

Changes not only in education but for educators- increasing teacher effectiveness and accelerating learning outcomes.

We know that Learn Create Share is about the pedagogy not the technology, but it is always good to have that reminder.

Learn Create Share can also be used in all curriculum areas and doesn't necessary involve the use of digital technology. Using this pedagogy across all curriculum areas helps to engage learners as they are able to see and connect with each others learning.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Google Keep:

Google keep can be used for both personal and educational purposes. Recording voice memos, notes as reminders or using this tool in the classroom for education. Taking photos, selecting text and adding to google doc to be shared with students.

Google Meet:

I learnt that adding a location is always helpful, especially when using your own personal google calendar to share with family and friends. Google meet is also great to add a reminder to your event for the day or week before if you are creating an event for later in the year. A reminder is always helpful.

Taming your tabs:

Star icon when creating a bookmarks, this is something I encourage within my classroom and saving passwords for those sites for students to have easy access when doing their classroom mahi.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

Taming your tabs:

I do need to encourage students to create folders for their bookmarked sites, making less clutter across their task bar as some students struggle to find bookmarks if they are not on taskbar but under the arrows on right of screen.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Google Meet:

Would be a great way to have students record this discussions around stories they have read during the week to show their comprehension of stories that they have been reading. They can them embed this onto their blogs for other tamariki or whanau to see.

You will see with this video from a google meet with Adriana we discussed a blog post about Anzac day that a year 6 boy did. It had multiple aspects and multiple comments that he also replied to, this we thought made a quality blog post for a student of his age. I had shared the link with Adriana in the google meet invite, next time I will present the tab, but as there was only 2 of off we could see the blog post using the link I shared before the meet started.

DFI DAY 1- COMPLETE

 The origin story... 

What is Maniakalani and why is a great opportunity for all Kura within Aotearoa?

Maniakalani has been helping educators and tamariki engage in learning for over a decade. Engaging learning by using Learn, Create, Share pedagogy with the use of 21st century learning tools (digital). 

Equity, Achievement, Hope, 21st Century skills are some of the reasons why Manaiakalani have been supporting educators for over a decade. Students are able to have authentic learning experiences whilst having their own personal voice to engage all in teaching and learning. 

After 4 years of Maniakalani being developed, whanau become engaged and a home school learning partnership regarding learning devices was established. 

 What did I learn... 

Information from today encourages my thinking for what I have been doing within my classroom, giving students ownership of their learning and making learning achievable for all learners. However, a excellent reminder is that I must have clear expectations of google docs/ files and folders, making sure these are all named correctly to make a consistent message across the teaching staff. Making it easier for when students transition from class to class each year. Similar to when setting out workbooks each year. 

In our bubble we also had a quick chat about how we can block visibility of slides so tamariki cannot access their work for the following week too early. I like making it available on Sundays so students are able to see and be prepared for their week of learning ahead. 

What did I learn that I can teach my students...

I need to encourage students to now use their initials when they create any new doc/ drawing or slides. This is a great way for students and teachers across multiple learning areas monitoring who is working on what task and also what they are working on, or what they need to finish. 

I really love the idea of eyes on text reading mileage task, this is a great way of using speech to text, where in the past I have only used this for writing. 

What did I create?

I used google Doc to create a task for my low level learners. This was a task that this day 1 had given us in a simple form, I have adjusted it using a table and added more of a specific layout that matches most of my planning. The one thing I didn't like about doing this in google Doc for my colour wheel readers is that I was unable to add a mote to this, which I do use in other planning so students can listen to the instructions, taking away any barriers for their reading.