Day 6. Dealing with data

The Manaiakalani Pedagogy: Learn Create Share

Today we focused on 'Visible' teaching and learning and reflecting on its importance.

Tasks for the weekend:

Reading: Steve Hargadon

“The students who aren't succeeding usually don't have any idea that school is a game. Since we tell them it's about learning, when they fail they then internalize the belief that they themselves are actual failures--that they are not good learners…”

Exploring the professional blogs of Manaiakalani educators who use class sites to make learning and teaching visible to support students’ agency and make connections with the wider communities.

GOOGLE FORMS

Google Forms is a free online tool from Google* which allows users to create forms, surveys, and quizzes as well as to collaboratively edit and share the forms with other people. 

This allowed me to learn how to create my own Google form that I might use at the beginning of the new school year to get to know my team.

Your Personal Preferences Google Forms

Google My Maps

Analysing the completed Google Forms about our group's holiday destinations, we discovered another useful app: My Google Maps that can be used to teaching and inspire my students and extend their learning experiences.

We also had a chance to create our own Google Maps and explore its features.

GOOGLE SHEETS

Google sheets include almost all of the same spreadsheet functions as excel—if you know how to use Excel, you'll feel at home in Google Sheets. I've used both programmes in the past but today's learning was very useful as I had a chance to refresh my knowledge and also learn a few new functions. You can also download add-ons, create your own, and write custom code.

It's online, so you can gather data with your spreadsheet automatically and do almost anything you want, even when your spreadsheet isn't open.

Google Sheets is a great tool for collaboration and it's available from any device.

Analysing Data

Then we looked at some student blogs' data and analysed it. Next, we were offered to analyse a blog of your choice using our new Google sheets knowledge and skills. I chose to look at my class blog. Here is one of my Tabs showing the data I analysed and presented in Google Sheets:

Day 5: Enabling Access - Sites

Connecting with Manaiakalani - Pedagogy and Kaupapa 

As educators, we can teach our students how to utilize online connectivity in ways that support individual interests and passions, and help students meet their own academic and personal goals.

As professionals, we have to stay connected to upgrade our skills, collaborate, learn from each other and contribute to the educational community.

Let’s reflect on why connectivity matters. I believe that:

• Connectivity supports students’ passions.
• Connectivity means your work is accessible and mobile.
• Connectivity supports learning about your interests (or studying for the SAT).
• Connectivity allows for collaboration and contribution to creating meaningful work.
• Most importantly, teachers and students can learn, create, express themselves, be themselves sharing their new learnings, experiences and ideas.

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu is definitely to join in next year with my class.

Manaiakalani Toolkits to be explored over the weekend.


Google Sites

Being new to the Google Sites, it was a great experience for me to explore the existing Google Sites and reflect on their design and how do they meet their purpose.

Exploring some Examples of Class Sites - it will be my homework to evaluate these examples and learn from their creators. Another great resource is our collaborative evaluation because this will help me to filter the advantages and disadvantages of these class sites through the lens of my experienced colleagues.

My very first Class Site

Finally, I got an opportunity to start creating my own Class Site (still in progress).  Currently, I'm using a Seesaw blog with my class but feel a strong need to extend my students' learning experiences.
The Class sites that I looked at today had some great examples of visible teaching, rewindable learning, multimodal and multi-text content, etc. My next step for the next year:-)