DAY 4-DFI-Dealing with Data.

 Today Dorothy spoke about the Share aspect of the Manaiakalani "Learn, create and share" pedagogy.

She introduced the topic with such a cool analogy, she commented that "we have been sharing since time began" food, stories, our visions. To think through social media platforms, facebook, twitter, you tube these platforms empower us to communicate to the rest of the world our very own thoughts, ideas, learnings, and also being able to create collections of feedback and feedforward..Powerful stuff. Sharing is part of our DNA our social fabric.

Dorothy mentioned 'sharing with Purpose" allowing our learners to have an authentic audience, whether that be one another, the local community or beyond.

We use the platform blogger which allows our learners to connect with others which was not available before the digital age.

Today was a good day. I had a great opportunity to delve further into google maps. I saw how useful this tool would become with learners, if you simply wanted to show them their surroundings (like a geography lesson or a history lesson) it would be great to just be able to show my children around their community. Below is a google map showing all my favourite beaches in my community.

We also got to create a graph in google sheets. I have always wondered how people have been able to visually represent trends through graphs on their blogs. Well now I know! This is a tool I will be able to use in my teaching practise. Below is an example of how I was able to pull information from my google sheet and display the same information in a visual way.