Day 4 Dealing with Data

 Day 4 Dealing with Data

SHARE - Tohatoha

"Work with learners to establish an authentic audience for their learning outcomes'

Today's session highlighted the benefit of both sharing learning and how this needs to be done in a way that is authentic to our learners to engage them in both their learning and how they interact/reflect on their learning process.

The digital platform has amplified and accelerated the sharing capabilities of our learners, allowing our learners to share with purpose to a broader audience - an authentic audience that chooses to interact with their learning.

Having a real purpose and an authentic audience can encourage task completion, the motivation of receiving comments/feedback/feedforward, sharing end products/DLO's, and their reflections on their learning can be a useful driving force in the classroom.

This is a timely reminder for me not to 'rush through' the Share aspect of the Learn Create Share pedagogy!  

I always wondered why Blogger was the chosen platform for Learn Create Share, so having the benefits of Blogger explained was also useful to my understanding.

Class on Air - This looks like a great resource for PLD, and I am looking forward to investigating this further.

I am also going to ensure I explore the 'Analyse your audience' tools in blogger, and feel this will be useful in my class to 're-ignite' learners interest in blogging.

👌Digital Citizenship                 👌Lateral Learning Networks                  👌Accelerating Achievement      👌Whānau connections           👌Threaded conversations/two way/real

👌Record of Learning/digital portfolio                                

Forms

Having always used programmes like Survey Monkey it was really beneficial to see how Forms can be used for data gathering, but also as a learning and testing tool.   Tips and tricks to take away include: lock mode, quiz setting, exporting data directly to sheets, creating pathways, using as a shortcut to marking!

Maps

I have not used Maps in the classroom often - the few times I have the learners tended to change to street view and stalked each others houses!  What a great learning and teaching tool!  The different learning contexts and content that Maps can bring to learning experiences was a real surprise to me!  Other takeaways for me included importing data, layering, the differing learning experiences - from checking Google's accuracy to studying terrain and measurement tasks.

Sheets

I explored my son's blogging activity and displayed this using Google Sheets and Google Draw.  I have always found Google Sheets quite frustrating and finicky so this session was one I was both looking forward to and wanting to avoid!  I do now feel more confident with Sheets, and am glad of the tutorials/resources included.

Tips and tricks - Autofill, Filter options, conditional formatting, explore tool will suggest charts/analysis.  

Using a breakdown such as this as a learning experience has many benefits!  Love the learning and goal setting Mele demonstrated in her presentation.  Checking out Robyn's blog for more information and a lesson plan on this is on my to do list.

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