DFI

DFI Day Four: Dealing with Data

Share

Today we discussed the third floorboard of the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy, share. I really enjoyed this section today as it is a part of my own teaching practice that I am trying to be more intentional with, and have been making a more conscious effort to switch up the way we share work, but also making sure when we do share that it is authentic and relevant. For example earlier in the year we had a google meet with a class in Hawkes Bay in which we had been pen pals with, and together we shared our terms learning. It was an awesome experience for both classes as we had been keeping up to date with what we had been learning. When sharing our work/project we also got to teach the other class as we were sharing some of the history from our respective regions. It made this graphic we looked at this morning very relevant - as we were sharing to finish our learning but also were given the opportunity to learn from sharing (both about some of Hawke's Bay’s history, but also learning some oral language and presenting skills). 

I had also never considered the idea of a compulsory audience vs a chosen audience. I think this is something I will now keep in mind when thinking about the different audiences that students are sharing with. 

I am very much looking forward to next year and having more devices and the opportunity for students to be blogging their learning in real time. 

Some of the other ways we are sharing currently at Devon Intermediate.

Google Forms

Google forms is a platform that I am reasonably confident using. I utilised the different features of this a lot during Level 4 and 3 when students were learning online. I enjoyed having the time to make a form that I will be able to use in class … hopefully. I have linked it here, if you would like to check it out. I have not, however, made different sections within a google form, and while I couldn’t quickly think of a topic to create a form that had sections in it today, I am looking forward to playing around with this feature and figuring it out. I feel it could be very useful in terms of giving students that need it some extra revision, while students that have mastered the concept can skip past. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLmsctQcXUMc7axk6-fnboxf7INJD53gDgtp2xmmg8QGpNNw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Google My Maps

An awesome platform I was not aware existed until today. I am currently doing a math project with my class where they are planning a trip around New Zealand visiting different sites of conflict. They have to plan the places they are going to visit in addition to accommodation, transport, and other costs including food and spending money. I have given them a map of New Zealand on an A3 piece of paper and they are currently marking their route and adding in all their extra information and expenses around the side. It would have been amazing to do this section on ‘my maps’; they would have been able to add their exact route, mark the places of conflict, the exact location of their accommodation, and add expenses and extra information to the description part. Here is a map I had a go at creating today which has pins for our DFI groups favourite holiday destinations, I love that in addition to adding points you are able to import data.  

Google Sheets 

I love using data sheets, so it was nice to be able to explore google sheets more today - as I am coming from a windows background where I was taught using excel. I have a pretty good understanding of manipulating data but today I learn some tricks that are going to be so helpful moving forward and help save so much time, here are some of them: freezing rows and columns, the paintbrush tool so I no longer have to manually format each cell, row, or column, automatically being able to alternate colours in a table, protecting cells (will be amazing to use when sending out school wide documents that only need some information added), sparkline is just the best thing ever, automatic fill to follow patterns, and validating data. Here is the table and charts I made during the create section this afternoon on blog posts.