Dealing With Media #4

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

We started our session today looking at the final component of the Manaiakalani kaupapa of 'Tohatoha - Share". It is true we as humans have been sharing information in a variety of ways since the beginning of time. In a variety of ways, good, bad and ugly. The introduction of YouTube in 2005 social networking took off which amplified the human race and capability to share their world on a global level. Some students are hooked and engaged during the CREATE phase, and other in the SHARE phase. Approximately 50 % for each. Our sharing is only constrained by time, place and people. This highlights for me as an area that needs regular attention and focus, particularly when looking at my student's blog post statistics. Blogging needs to take place more often and have its own timetabled blocks to ensure more happens.

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

Ensuring my students have an authentic audience when sharing their learning on their blogs will be a big focus for me. Getting them to notice who is reading their blogs? Where from? Number of views? Comments? How often do they respond to these comments? Starting firstly at number of posts they have made over the past 4 years, what have been their averages? What is their story in terms of their journey. Creating a competitive situation where they receive rewards or badges for the number of posts they make. Even getting them to compare with students in our school, same age, in our cluster, same age, across the country, same age and setting. Below is a link to the spreadsheet I got to tutu with today, analysing my tau 7 and 8 and the lack of posts they have made in the early years, compared to last year and now. The trends they see, the reasoning behind this.

Statistics of Students Blogging Tau 8

Statistics of Students Blogging Tau 7

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

The information and tips and tricks when using Google sheets has been so valuable, particularly when our students have been focussing on Statistics. I'm excited to go back to school and share these. The use of Google My Maps will also be hugely beneficial for my students as we are looking into migration of Māori, Polynesian and other ethnicities to New Zealand. We also did a landmarks activity that could be extended using this tool. Our students are familiar with plan a journey but this app and what you can do with it is way better. Below is an example of what I created when thinking about South Island Papatipu Runanga.

Kāi Tahu Papatipu Runanga and Marae

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

I am going to rethink how I use Google Sheets - In particular planning large family events, planning with colleagues and friends. I can certainly see the benefits here.