DFI 6 - Dealing with Data

We began our morning talking to Dorothy about the Kaupapa of being empowered. Dorothy emphasised that Manaiakalani is all about empowering learners AND teachers.

Technology is not just a tool, it is something that should be transforming our learners lives.

Research has shown that young people who get a back and forward conversation on a blog 5 times accelerates the child's learning- I find this amazing as I have many children that leave one sided comments so I clearly need to get them responding to comments, maybe I need to make time in class for this to happen. 

For learning to be empowered it needs to be learner centered, future focused, differentiated and personalised. Empowerment comes from being connected with other people. If they learn to be connected with others then they are empowered to change their future. The learning can't truly be empowered if the learning is not visible, ubiquitous and connected. We need to ensure that the learning we do empowers our children as they will then be able to change their future and strive to be BTB. 

Chalk and Talk

Dave then discussed Google forms with us and then showed us not only how to create forms but also dove into how to manage form responses. We then created our own forms, I made a form for my class to help feed into our wellbeing focus for the year. 

Deep Dive

Google mymaps

This is very exciting for me and my class as it is something we can use to help feed our Enviroschools inquiry. Below is how I have labelled a map for my class after they made their own maps last week. 

We then worked on google sheets and how we could use this for maths to help our children to Overall I found today very helpful. I enjoyed reminding myself about the different ways I can use google sheets and that way that I can then transfer these skills into the classroom. I think it would be interesting for my children to do their blog statistics now and then redo it every term so they can see how they can improve.

Overall I have enjoyed today and feel that I have learnt a few things that will be helpful in class. I always feel with sheets that if I don't use them I forget what to do so I have found it helpful to revise those skills that I used to be quite proficient at.