It's all about the data.....
.....except it's not, but being able to collate and make data work for us is important.
First though we heard from Dorothy about the community in Manaiakalani and how empowerment/agency is so important for them. Socio-economic factors mean that the local community in Auckland have large parts of their lives that they have little or no control over, so being able to have ownership and to feel empowered is extremely important for them. This translates well to our local community. Following events in our city over the last nine years, there are aspects of life where our whanau feel powerless. The children may feel that the environment and outside agencies effect our lives without warning. The importance of the pedagogy of Manaiakalani including being visible, ubiquitous and connected means that the community have ownership over their education and feel empowered to engage and confident in their sharing to an audience that values them.
This morning we looked at forms which I can see as being a useful way to collect information particularly with pre and post assessment in the classroom. There are a number of different options of how you can ask questions and collect answers which mean that the tool is user friendly.
The Block NZ form
Google My Maps has some great applications and I can see opportunities in the classroom for measurement and also pinning out on a world map where our families come from at the beginning of the year. I have now set up a blog including a Map for my parents who are about to embark on a gap year travelling around NZ in their motorhome.
First though we heard from Dorothy about the community in Manaiakalani and how empowerment/agency is so important for them. Socio-economic factors mean that the local community in Auckland have large parts of their lives that they have little or no control over, so being able to have ownership and to feel empowered is extremely important for them. This translates well to our local community. Following events in our city over the last nine years, there are aspects of life where our whanau feel powerless. The children may feel that the environment and outside agencies effect our lives without warning. The importance of the pedagogy of Manaiakalani including being visible, ubiquitous and connected means that the community have ownership over their education and feel empowered to engage and confident in their sharing to an audience that values them.
This morning we looked at forms which I can see as being a useful way to collect information particularly with pre and post assessment in the classroom. There are a number of different options of how you can ask questions and collect answers which mean that the tool is user friendly.
The Block NZ form
Google My Maps has some great applications and I can see opportunities in the classroom for measurement and also pinning out on a world map where our families come from at the beginning of the year. I have now set up a blog including a Map for my parents who are about to embark on a gap year travelling around NZ in their motorhome.
Lastly we looked at Google Sheets which would be the tool which I have the least experience with. I am used to receiving information via sheets but have not used it a lot for creating or manipulating data. I can see how using student achievement data in a sheet will be able to give me more information that I can use for planning and assessing achievement.
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