May 8--Session #7 Dealing with Data...

What did I learn that increased my understanding of being connected with Manaiakalani’s kaupapa and pedagogy? I am regularly struck by how unprepared our school was going in to Chrome Books. The more I learn about this kaupapa, the more frustrated I become that our staff and most of all our students were not trained properly to use these tools effectively. Now that I see all of the resources for learning--particularly with my rural, under-resourced students--it just breaks my heart that we will be spending so much time unlearning some bad habits.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional and what did I learn that could be used with my learners?  Today was an intense day of learning Sheets and Forms and the timing could not have been better.  I am the Specialist Classroom Teacher at my school and I work with a number of provisionally registered teachers and I currently have a student teacher in my classroom.  We have been having conversations recently about collecting student voice for assessment and appraisal and to inform our practice.  We currently have a generic student feedback form that we use at our school but it does not exactly fit any of our needs and Google Forms will be perfect for this; I was struck by how easy it is to make them!  Immediate learning that I can use tomorrow with students--yahoo!

Sheets was not quite as simple and I have decided that is because I previously used MS Excel there are things that I am accustoned to doing that do not appear as obvious in sheets.  I suspect with all of the possibilities and uses (attached to forms!), I will become more fluent with all of these applications.

Es' Chart on Sheets: Amelia's Blog Posts