Manaiakalani Pedagogy - Visible
Learning should be visible to the learner all the time.
"Can you see it or can you not?"
John Hattie - Visible Learning
One aspect of visibility he doesn't delve into is: What does visibility look like in a digital world?
Feedback and Feed Forward: an important tool to help accelerate learning for the learner. We are using digital tools to do this too now.
Wanting whanau to be partners in the learning, be a part of the journey - making learning visible to whanau as well.
Learners who are successful are those who can navigate the teacher's mind. They also more often than not had parents who had had success in their educational life. Knew what they had to do to pass - if no one explains that to children how they are supposed to know this.
The Game of School: Steve H
I do have some thoughts with this: are we then just teaching to the test? Are we encouraging the learners to dig deeper and develop a deeper understanding?
Hapara - parents can access the children's learning through the parents portal.
Manaiakalani Google Class on Air - cameras in the classroom
Blogger: Professional Blogs/Blog posts
As educators we need to be aware that we are not locking parents out of this learning journey - can be done digitally with the use of passwords and logins etc.
Google Forms
You can create different pathways using forms by adding sections.
Settings - remove restrictions in the settings menu.
Presentation - tick shuffle questions order - shuffles the order of questions to ensure that everyone is working on different questions at the same time.
Responses -
You can set a time for the form to be shut down.
*Select responses destination - responses can be sent to the same spreadsheet for example.
Possible uses for Google Forms:
I have completed a lot of forms but had never had the opportunity to create my own. A tool with endless possibilities and that could be used in s many different contexts. Shiralee and I spoke about using a form to gather information at the beginning of the year as a Getting to know you form. - set of questions and also"One thing I would like my teacher to know about me is...."Add questions asking about the children's cultures and then placemarking these on mymaps.
It could be also a useful tool to try and engage parents, gathering their ideas and suggestions about how they could be better engaged with classroom and school life, how they could contribute to their childs learning at home more effectively and about keeping informed and permission slips etc.
Google My Maps
Place Marks - can customise colour and icons, add an image.
Class site - this is who we are - culture in our syndicate/ special places for families
Blog commenting - placemark blogs children have commented on - paste their comment in there too, so will have a map showing a collection of blog commented they have made.
Planning traveling routes - can select different modes of transport to and from destinations.
Use to teach scale - an area of class, then school, community, North Island?
Can share or embed your map into other documents or sites.
This is going to be another valuable tool that we can utilise in class. So many possibilities to be explored!
Google Sheets
A good tool for holding a collection of data and information.
So you can see all data on one page - Click on column A
RWC 2019 is an authentic event happening at the moment that the children could be using sheets. Upload results etc.
Lots of learning about sheets today. Sheets has always been a tool that I found confusing, so I rarely created sheets and if I do use it it was a format created by someone else. This session was invaluable and although I learned alot I will still need to continue playing around with it.
Blogging
Children can get badges for posts and comments eg. for 50 posts, for 100 posts
Rather than a set blogging commenting time could the children make more reflective posts?
Reading for example - children could write an opinion piece on the text they have been reading.
Have conversational posts on class blogs, asking for their opinions, opening up conversations rather than formal pieces of writing.
Another session with a whole lot of learning! I have come away with several things I want to try with the children.
We have decided to create a Google form for the children to complete next week about their cultures. We will then use this information to create a mymaps using placemarks to display all the cultures resent in Te Waka Ako.
I would like to use Robyn Anderson's case study in Maths. The children can collect data and analyse information from their personal blogs. Why tdo hey think they had more posts in one month compared to another or comparing the amount from year to year. It will be an interesting activity for them to do and it would be intriguing to see the children's thoughts around this.
Kia Ora Rachelle,
ReplyDeleteI really love your idea of a 'Pick Your Path' with Google Forms. That could be a really interesting assignment for students and would allow you to pick apart their minds as to why they might have chosen that course. I also really love your idea of adding in the cultural aspects from Forms to MyMaps. Your students will be impressed by the visual that might create! Have you considered adding in Google Earth to learn a little more about their culture?
Hope you have a wonderful long weekend!