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Monday 16 May 2016

Spark-MIT 2016: Day 2


A haiku poem to share a moment in time! It has been a reflective day at Spark HQ with the Spark-MIT 2016 cohort sharing the progress and challenges of our inquiries so far.

Firstly we unpacked and discussed Dr Ruben Puendetura's SAMR model to evaluate how we will apply his framework to digital innovation in our classrooms. Critically, do we envisage that our digital innovations will transform learning through redefinition?

Each of us then outlined our problem, the progress made, the challenges faced and some proposed innovations. To summarize my inquiry so far:

Problem
As identified in earlier updates, my focus remains inquiring into engaging with whānau to support learners in achieving and sustaining accelerated gains in reading.

Progress
Baseline reading data has been collected for Year 6 learners for November 2015 and February 2016. As we enter our third week of Term 2, approximately 75% of learners are using Chromebooks in class on a daily basis, whilst the remaining students record their learning on paper.

Challenges
Waiting for more Chromebooks to come on line in the classroom has proved a challenging aspect to this inquiry and has limited opportunities to engage with family/whānau. When beginning this inquiry, I naively envisaged that students would be learning at home with digital devices by the end of Term 1. Very soon, this challenge will have run its course!

Innovation
I'm excited that students are about to invite family/whānau to school to share via a screencast why their learning would benefit from taking the Chromebooks home! They will also begin to create some "how to" videos to help their family/whānau engage with our kawa of care and support learning at home. The voice of our whānau will determine what shape some of this will take and, consequently, how this translates into innovations around reading.

2 comments:

  1. I have enjoyed catching up with where you are up to and feel for your frustration when your whole class does not yet have devices. I am so looking forward to seeing what happens in the next stage and recommend you connect with one of the MDTA teachers, Juliana, who is looking into a similar intervention. Check out her post here

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    1. Thanks, Dorothy. I will connect with Juliana at Tamaki Primary and look forward to learning about her inquiry/intervention. I'm also looking forward to meeting up with Rachel Williamson this week to find out more about her summer blogging pilot programme and if/how that might support this inquiry.

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