Manaiakalani: Prototype 2

Manaiakalani: Prototype 2

After attending the EdTech Summit in Sydney.

I started to explore and ponder the idea(s) and conversations I had with the officials and participants from the New South Wales Department of Education

Representatives from the NSW of Education spoke strongly about using Google Sites for the teachers around the state to place their teaching and learning on the site. Teachers are able to access resources, activities, and materials within their curriculum area.  As one official said "why re-invent the wheel and spending many hours of teaching time creating teaching material when the Department can help and support teachers i.e. in Science on a unit of work.

Also, I attended a number of workshops delivered by a number of teachers from both Australia and New Zealand who spoke highly about the advantages and benefits of using Google Sites.

This allowed me to ponder and reevaluate the journey of my tool and the decision was made to change my prototype and use the vehicle of 'Financial Literacy' a real-life context for my priority learners in Mathematics and use a Google site to drive my teaching and learning for the students to use problem-solving to progress and accelerate their learning in the subject.

The holidays were used to create and develop the site.

Site Link

The site will be shared with the other 2 teachers who will deliver the programme in Term 3. I will also seek student's voice and await the next KPMG meeting with the other MIT participants in August.

EdTech Summit: Sydney

EdTech Summit: Sydney

Attended the following summit from July 8 - 9 2019 in Sydney.

EdTech Summit Sydney 2019

Refer document for information and links of sessions attended.

EdTech Summit Notes

The sessions had many opportunities to explore further and implement into my teaching and learning. Also building relationships with fellow teaching professionals from Australia was useful and purposeful and further emphasized the close working relationships between our teachers in Australia and New Zealand.

We were also asked to present at the Summit. My presentation was on Google sheets and displaying and presentating data using data validation, conditional formatting and pivot tables. Although the session only had 6 participants, the 90 minute session allowed my passion and interest for data using sheets to be shared with others. The feedback and responses received was as follows:-

Great to work on sheets again and go over some skills that I haven’t used for awhile.

Using data formatting to colour code data and creating pivot tables.

Pivot tables are very useful!

Thanks for creating the sheets for us to practice on. Was super helpful to have a play on.

Thanks so much. This novice learnt a lot so thanks.

Very personable presenter who was happy to work with the audience on what they needed

Evaluation Submissions: 4
Average Rating: 4.92 
Did you learn something new (skill, perspective, idea, strategy)?: 5.00 
Was the session or presentation engaging (dynamic, high energy, hands-on, differentiated, interactive, fun)? : 5.00 
Rate the overall quality:: 4.75 

Each session attended made me more aware of possibilities to use when I return home and I could either use and pass onto others to help them.

One of the many highlights was attending the Google office in Sydney. It was inspirational and a wonderful opportunity to go inside and see Google. WOW!

The trip gave me a new enthusiasm to further explore slying that dragon (toolkit) and further be inspired and motivated to change the toolkit that has caused so much pleasure and anxiety over the many months starting the MIT journey.

I enjoyed spending time with ALL the MIT participants in Australia Sydney and this provided further opportunities for all of us to build on the relationships and friendships developed in New Zealand since starting the MIT journey in 2019.

Thanks to the Trust, Gerhard and David for the experience and journey.