DFI Session 4

Create: Making meaning of the content

Today we analysed data from a chosen student's data. I chose to analyse a chosen student provided to gather yearly and monthly data. Here is Tara from Papakura Central School in Auckland, NZ. I found that she had been blogging since 2016 and finished in 2019 giving me a good amount of data. Her blog progressed throughout her years and I could see her blog posts increasing mostly from the middle to the end of the year period. I think this is great to see and reminds me the fantastic outcomes that blogging can create as without knowing Tara in person I can see through her blog the progress she makes not only in her posting but also in her learning. I look forward to seeing the progress that my students make on our class blog and look forward to eventually having a good amount of data to analyse and reflect on.

As a professional after today's session I can now improve my confidence, capability, or workflow as a professional with the use of sheets and forms. Sheets is something that I have been using this year for my planning but have been shown a template and have never looked into the background of it. After having a go today and finding the basics then expanding this I feel as though I have the main idea around using sheets and how to create short cuts such. For example as mentioned above I am now able to use this is a tool to track learning. I have been using it for planning but now I want to look into using it as a reflection and a data collecting tool to go along with this.

Something that I found most valuable for my learners to use is google forms. I have been familiar with this and after having parent/student conferences via google meets this week I gained knowledge that they enjoyed using it. I used this as a check-in sheet for the children to complete each morning, this way if they do not want to verbally tell me they can write it down and I have easy access. Taking away from today I would like to carry this on in the classroom by looking at implementing it into my learning also. I would even like to carry the use of forms through into my personal life by sharing with friends and family and using this as a tool gather information, thoughts and ideas.