Week 3 - Dealing with Data

Dealing with Data

Tena koe and welcome back to the musings of me.

This week we were focused on dealing with data (not as dry as I would of thought)
Today Mark Maddren was joined by the comedy stylings of Mr David Winter

WWW

We started with the WWW

• What has worked for you since the last time we met?
• What hasn’t worked (or made sense)?
• What do you need help with?

Once again others ideas were of great value

• Creating a calendar for the children to be aware of due assessments or events was a great idea and I will look to implement this during the week. Having children add personal milestones will enhance their buy in.
• Kahoot - this is a reinforced idea that I have only heard 38 times and used twice but knowing the value of gamification in checking the children's knowledge and having them record questions. I guess I can learn new tricks.
• Rewindable learning - I did want to implement this someway in the previous week but found the week very busy with Tournaments, Cross country, RE obs, Extended Assembly, dance and life in general.
• It was good to hear others curious about ways to best use Hapara to support their learning.

Create

The wonderful Dorothy hung out with us for a spell to share what create means to Manaiakalani (I am becoming very adept at typing this word!)
This started with the realisation that children arrive at school full of bright eyed creativity and this is slowly eeked out as they progress through their education. She suggested checking out the ideas of Ken Robinson an actor who is well known for his idea that schools knockout creativity. Not so if we 'Learn Create Share'! This session emphasised hooking children in and how creative children are better problem solvers, collaborators and communicators.
We had quotes from Apple, Kohl, Dewey, Kindy to support this argument and, and examples of creativity hooking people from SISIMO
Basically I equated this to the wonderful lyrics By Fleetwood Mac ‘Ohhh, you make learning fun, it’s all I wanna do’
(I may have adapted these a little)

Forms

Forms were another thing I had heard about recently (yesterday) that I was keen to try.
I see this as a great tool and have quickly mad an example to try with the children.
The fact that I use the word quickly means it is very likely I will use this again.

Maps

We used data from a sheet to google our mad - I have embedded this below.
I can see many uses for this in the class with a hit the ground running approach in my cultural dance next week.
Using a form to identify countries children identify with, transferring this to a sheet and googling the data into a map.

Sheets

I think of spreadsheets as big spiders, they are important for the circle of life but they creep me out.
Thanks to Dave and Mark (and Paige) I still find them creepy, but not crawling on my shoulder creepy.
I have set up a template to use to record class data. and am looking forward sharing my - completed work link sheet with the class.

Data Analysis:

Using sheets and charts in the sheets I was able to create this interactive graph of a students Blog output.

When the code is imbedded it updates when you change data on the sheet allowing for real time views of progress.

(As you can see I have experimented a bit with embedding during this post which may make it a little painful to get around - but thanks for persevering)

Nau reira, tena koutou katoa