DFI # 4 Dealing with data

He Wānanga Matatau Matihiko (DFI: Digital Fluency Intensive)

                                                       DFI#4 Dealing with data

 Kia mate ururoa, kei mate wheke Fight like a shark, don’t give in like an octopus 

This whakatauki encourages us to not give up. When fishing, a shark will fight the whole time it is on the line. In comparison, an octopus will surrender once it’s been hooked. No matter how hard things get, let us fight like a shark.

This would have been my most challenging and nerve-racking session. 

 Manaiakalani Pedagogy

Enjoyed the whakaaro behind "tohatoha-share" totally agree with the kōrero. The images helped to bring home the reasons for and benefits of sharing. Highlighted the difference between compulsory and authentic sharing. I now understand the rationale behind why we get kids to blog and why I need to blog which is not something I have done well.

Sharing since time began

Sharing in the digital age

Google my maps: Taku Māhere-kua tāmautai (embedded)

Learning about creating a map. This is another first for me and there seems to be lots of "first". My map shows important local Māori histories and or significant sites within Te Tai Poutini (West Coast). These sites include paenga pakanga (battle site), pā (settlement), awa pounamu ( greenstone river), maunga (mountain), awa (river), and roto (lake).  Besides using maps for a school trip, family holiday trails, recording the distances from place to another, I think students would enjoy this as a way to follow a journey of a local purākau, using stories, legends or histories from other regions or countries. I can see lots of ways I can use this as well as for students. We have International students stay every year and WHS students could make local maps to help the International students navigate around the area, learn about significant sites, identify natural or man-made attractions or identify and map Iwi boundaries.

Puka Kūkara-Google Forms-Online Surveys

Pretty happy with using Google Forms and have one response! Still have gaps in my learning. 

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A great way to collect and organize information. Lots of possibilities.

Google Sheets-Spreadsheet program

Found Google sheets daunting but have kept at it. Making colorful charts and graphs using data makes it easy to read and identify patterns and saves reading a huge amount of information. I'd like to get students to have a go using data to experience Google sheets and as part of our maths instruction.  I'm now trying to post quicker rather than having lots of drafts, reworking my post, continually trying to fix things up or make better. My first time at creating one. Picked an individual student and then worked out the average number of blogs per month. I am keen to learn more on how to manage data and use it to decide student grouping and differentiation. To help make informed decisions,  adapt or change lessons and group students according to their needs.