Session 2 of our Digital Fluency Intensive brought a better understanding of the LEARN component of the Manaiakalani pedagogy. It was sobering to hear of how many students from the Tamaki community were leaving high school in the 1990s with no qualifications. This dire situation became a huge driver for change as continued underachieving was unacceptable.
Research shows that students in Decile 1 'land' at school, well behind their peers in higher decile schools. To interrupt this cycle of underperforming, schools started to challenge existing teaching methodologies. From humble beginnings, a handful of teachers rose to the challenge and the starting point was knock convention on the head by using podcasting to target improvements in literacy.
Our trainers also shared with us how to work with GOOGLE FORMS and GOOGLE SHEETS. FORMS is a great tool for gathering information using a variety of question options and it automatically collates the data on a separate sheet - genuis! SHEETS are a tool to record, analyse and format information.
The illustration above was produced using FORMS (specific location of favourite holiday destinations) and SHEETS (collated information to merge into map).
I am looking forward to putting my newly acquired SHEET skills to smarten up the content and appearance of my existing spreadsheets for Turn in Sheets and Assessment data.
Thanks for another informative day Dorothy, Gerhard and Matt!
I love the way you are able to succinctly report the content of the day AND to enrich with your reflections and observations about how you can make this relevant to your practice.
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