DFI Week 4 - Dealing with Data

Today Dorothy talked about Share - Tohatoha within the Manaiakalani pedagogy.  I am intrigued how this connects to Connectivism Learning Theory and the eight principles; diversity of opinions, connecting specialised information sources, learning may reside in non-human appliances, capacity to know more is more critical than what is known, nurturing and maintaining connections, seeing connections between fields, ideas and concepts, currency and decision-making is a learning process (Siemens, G).  Critiquing my initial knowledge of  Ako-Hanga-Tohatoha pedagogy, the principles in bold stand out - what do you think? 

Two important points to make that distinguish Connectivism Learning Theory from others ie Constructivism, firstly, "the ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant" (Siemens, G) information, this could relate to the Cybersmart curriculum. Secondly, that knowledge can be transferred within the school environment because it resides in a database and not with the individual teacher (ubiquitous). For more information on Connectivism please view the following video by Dr George Siemens: 

       

I really enjoy working with data to inform my practice.  Today's session was very informative.  Google Maps was a new learning experience - we have been working in a cluster with two other schools, so I decided to locate the på sites and significant places.  

It was fun creating a Google Form regarding traveling in NZ and abroad.  Here is the form if you wish to complete it:  

It was nice to have the time today to practice some of the Google Sheets skills.  I have only really used Google Sheets for my timetable, and student attendance at whanau time.  Here is a example of a Google Sheet, analysing data:

All the above skills and tools I am happy to share with my students from years 5-10.