Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive: DAY 4

  Dealing with Data

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? 

Sharing is a powerful experience and it is included in the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy. You share to learn, not to finish a piece of work. Sharing publicly not only gives opportunities for sharing but also to receive feedback or comments from a world audience. Sharing also helps to connect learners with others.  I liked this quote by Dorothy Burt "Every person has the potential to live life as the star of their own movie".

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Learning should be shared with a purpose and an audience. Currently student writing work is recorded in a Writing book and kept in class. This has a limited audience of the class teacher and other students in the class. If students are given the opportunity to share their learning via a digital platform like Blogger, then their audience would come from beyond the classroom and will include their families, community and world. Analytic tools can also be used to analyse your audience.
Using Forms as a means of collecting information, exporting this to a Google Sheet, analysing data by calculating the sum/average, filtering and applying conditional formatting is definitely going to improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?

• Blogposts can be used by learners and teachers. It is a good way of recording refections of your learning. Blogposts can serve as a portfolio for students and can be be used throughout their schooling years. 
• Writing quality blog comments that are positive, thoughtful and to ask a question.
• Creating formative or summative assessments through Google Forms Quizzes.
• I am looking forward to using Google Forms, Google Sheets and Google MyMaps with my students. Students could fill information about where they live or places they have visited on a Google Form. The responses collected will be exported to a Google Sheet. They could then use Google MyMaps and import the data from the  Google Sheet, thereafter adding place markers, photos or videos on their maps. Pins could be used to show landmarks, schools or restaurants in their town.
• Students could also conduct a statistical investigation using Google Forms to collect information. Creating a visual display of the data by creating charts from their Google sheets and analysing data.
• Using the chart below to write statements about the Spelling Test data. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

• Using Google Form as an online survey tool to collect data.
• Using Google MyMap to plan a trip. 
• After my learning from the Chalk and Talk session by Makore and Levelling up with Google Sheets by Vicki, I decided to look at students spelling results over a few months, analysing data, applying formulas to multiple cells, calculating the average and being creative by adding  sparklines.

   

 A screenshot of my version of Meet the DFI Group's best (or best dreamed of) international holiday destination.  This was done on Firefox as I was not able to do it from my Drive using Chrome. I will have another go when our school administrator gives us access to Google Mymaps.