Tohatoha

This week we turbocharged our Share | Tohotoha pedagogy and invited educators from across The Manaiakalani Network to connect and share in our Term 3 Manaiakalani Staff Meeting. With registrations upwards of 500,  harnessing the affordances of technology and our network of connected learning communities across Aotearoa resulted in an awesome display of connected learners sharing.

He aha te kai o te Rangatira, He kōreo, he kōrero, he kōrero

The session was designed to be conversational with small groups formed in response to curriculum level and Teaching as Inquiry topics. This was an opportunity to connect and share strategies with educators who have been focussing on similar achievement challenges. We shared conversation starters and each group met online for 45 min.

We believe sharing is fundamentally about people making connections. Early feedback - the opportunities to connect with teachers and school leaders, specifically to hear how schools are approaching their unique contexts, was valued.

This week's DFI also focused on share and how our young people are harnessing their class and individual blogs to connect with an authentic audience across our network of schools. We were reminded that sharing is also an opportunity to understand the importance of completing a task... an important life skill...

PLUS seek feedback on progress (being ready to share at any stage of the learning process) and the opportunities this can attract when sharing online... (versus cultivating celebrity status in a social media soaked world. I've written about this in the past...

How are you "harnessing your ecosystems?" How are you scaling up your connectivity and attracting the people and resources you need to find your potential?

Enjoyed the Dealing with Data sessions which provided inspiration for stepping up my sheets game with Data Validation and Conditional formatting to manage our Summer Learning Journey project. Learning how to harness the extension Autocrat has definitely been a bonus (thanks Dave Winter).

Using Google Forms as a Writing Frame has been a great place to start and further conversations in our DFI bubble today helped me to think about further opportunities to personalise learning (thanks Herman and Lars)

Google Maps have always been a favourite. If you're new to using Maps with your learners start here with one of our Summer Learning Journey activities.