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I am trying to unpack this phrase from the ELPF in the context of our large secondary school, for my better understanding.
"In our school digital technologies are embedded in learning and reflect culturally responsive practice."
Can anyone help - some real life examples of this being done well at the engaging or empowering phase would be helpful.
Thanks
Ros Lee
Otumoetai College
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Kia ora Ros
In my mind, this one statement is made up of 3 parts...
These statements in the eLPF do encourage us to discuss further in our schools what these mean, and look like for us, before we decide at what stage we are at. Currently this aspect is one that we're being inundated with for requests for support. I do not believe that there is one hard and fast answer here - hence my adding to your questions :-) Many schools are realising that culturally responsive practice is an area of need so there is still lots of learning to be had. Documentation that you may find useful are the MOE's - Tataiako Competencies & Ka Hikitia - to name a couple.
Some considerations may be....
OK, now I'm starting to babble so I will stop.
Feel free to make contact if you'd like to discuss this further. I can think of a couple of schools that it may be useful for you to contact?
Ngā mihi
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Malo Ros,
For a Pasifika focus - check out the following:
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Hi Ros,
We were having this exact same discussion yesterday at our school so it is great to hear that other schools are too.
Thank you Kathe for breaking this down a bit further and Manu for the resources you have shared. I am going to share your blog with our staff so that they can follow along.
Karen
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Kia ora Ros,
Thanks for a great post and a chance to discuss this further. I agree with my colleagues and their suggesstions and would also pose the following questions for further discussion amongst your staff.
There are many more I could pose but in short I think the question is asking two things, how responsive is our practice to the 'whole' child (in relation to academically, socially, emotionally and culturally) AND are we using technology to support our responsive practices.
Hope this helps. Ngā mihi
"In our school digital technologies are embedded in learning and reflect culturally responsive practice."
Here is a real life example from my class
http://moturoa.blogspot.co.nz/2009/10/learning-our-mihi.html
It is a from a few years ago but hopefully shows how digital technologies- in this case Skype- supports learning in a culturally responsive way- akonga- teina/tuakana- learning our mihi.
The video shows my year four learners and is a class made video so production values are amateur but hopefully you will get the idea.
These are awesome Allanah I love your blogs and amazing use of technology in classes - you are an inspiration
Heres some of mine but the videos are pretty raw - we have editing workshops planned for passion prject fortnights at end of terms - tony
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WhhVzuZsZh97q7J0HuVSkm2Xrh-jkdZckK-DkepyBVU/edit?usp=sharing
ps we video and still image with 4 cameras in most junior classes up to year 11 but only rarely record senior classes as they are more static - i usually video debates, discussions, trips, experiments, events, investigations dramas, outreach, live links, visits, physics tournaments, fieldtrips and ethics workshops. I am also doing slo mo, fast frame and greenscreen workshops and recording video flythroughs f artificial augmented and virtual worlds and games
cheers tony
Tony Cairns - tony.cairns@paradise.net.nz - www.nzgdb.co.nz
42 Fortunatus Street, Vogeltown, Wellington, 6021 NEW ZEALAND
Science Teacher at Wellington High School tony.cairns@whs.school.nz
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culturally responsive to me means asking what people want and respecting their wishes
we have no imaging or videos on marae unless cleared first and always clear speakers
requests first for wishes. We often have kids in coloured hats, leis and decorated lab coats designated as recorders so people can say no i dont want to be imaged or simply hold up a hand to stop imaging
to address the questions above
Heres some other ideas on it
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19W9m-urZ5auDwJhLxyWghM2s79GMRVvwFmH9MlEjXN8/edit
i think we need to do more here to see what parents think re ITC,technology and the parent, child, teen borders and boundaries
we use hard copy reports and newsletter whenever we know there is an unmet need and ask parents and students to keep us up to date in this regard
yes, waka navigation, maori iwi genetics, ancestry, whakapapa, tikanga, kapa haka, plays in by and for maori, speech competitions, exams and assessments in maori on request, powhiri, poroporoaki, tangi and treading orr waking the land and space, treaties in and for and created in classrooms see also url below
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19W9m-urZ5auDwJhLxyWghM2s79GMRVvwFmH9MlEjXN8/edit
There are many more I could pose but in short I think the question is asking two things, how responsive is our practice to the 'whole' child (in relation to academically, socially, emotionally and culturally)
ok ish but we could do better - lots better
AND are we using technology to support our responsive practices.
yes
cheers in haste need dinner now
tony
Tony Cairns - tony.cairns@paradise.net.nz - www.nzgdb.co.nz
42 Fortunatus Street, Vogeltown, Wellington, 6021 NEW ZEALAND
Science Teacher at Wellington High School tony.cairns@whs.school.nz
Home phone (644) 934 8669 Work (644) 385 8911 Mobile 022 653 4021
Oh my goodness, great ideas and digital examples, so generous, lots to look through and think about, thanks everyone. Ros you came to the right place!
I see Manu has posted a reply here and she also started a thread on, Indigenous cultures and e-Learning where she asked, “How can blended e-Learning be a way or an approach to assist Māori and Pasifika learners in navigating their way to success?” You might be interested in the responses, including other VLN threads that can support your initial request as well as a shared Google Doc that tries to align aspects from the Leadership, Teaching and Beyond the Classroom dimensions of the eLPF with a cultural responsive lens.
Kathe has also posted some ideas here and has helped to create a MASAM (Māori Achieving success as Māori) framework that incorporates digital technologies. You can find out more in this webinar recording:
Māori achieving success as Māori with an e-learning lens, 12th Nov 2014. In this webinar, Kathe Tawhiwhirangi, Trevor Bond and Yvonne Nikora shared ways schools are proactively addressing, Māori achieving success as Māori using the e-Learning Planning Framework and the (MASAM) Framework as tools for self review. We did this using the Media gallery videos from Enabling e-Learning (Beyond the Classroom section).
You might also be interested in Enabling e-Learning’s page on Teaching and learning with Māori tradition and modern technology in Beyond the classroom which has some wonderful videos and supplementary resources to think about.
These ideas and resources will take a while to get through, but we've love for you to 'get back to us' and tell us how you got on .