DFI WEEK 4: Dealing with Data

Learn, Create, Share:

Today we met with Donna to talk about the Manaiakalani pedagogy of share. Dorothy talked about the year 2005 and how the year changed with social media. Social media began to become a huge influence on how we share. This was when Manaiakalani saw a hook into my sharing possibilities and embrace this change. 

"The purpose of sharing is the audience"

I know for myself and school we have a school Facebook page, classroom blogs for parents to access. We try and have lots of opportunities for our children to share and show their learning in real time. 

Google Forms:

Donna talked us through how to make a Google Form I myself have completed many Google Forms but I have never created my own form. This was quite exciting and I can see would be useful in the classroom to get feedback about teaching and learning as it gives all the responses in graphs and summaries etc.

Google Maps:

Together we practised making our own maps from destinations that we loved to visit as a cohort. I then learnt how to add specific places change font, add labels etc. This term our focus is mapping and we have just started learning positional language and started using scratch. This would be perfect for children to be able to find places from their community and then work out how many metres/kilometres to the school to the shop etc. What about if you walked? drove? etc.

Very cool the kids will love this! Especially because it is our community and they are the experts. I am so excited to try this. 

Google Sheets:

Donna walked us through Google Sheets and doing the online course today I must admit I will definitely have to go back and look at the slides and notes on this again. I feel like I need more time to get my head around this. 

Making meaning of content:

Lastly in today's session we looked at how to access our blogger data and graph this to interpret the data. Below is my graph and analysis.