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Person / Group
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Auckland Primary School
Teacher
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Date
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23 Mar 2019
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Notes
Tell me about your class:
Year 5,6 mostly goals
10,11 years old
Typical day involves managing class workload, assessment, planning
Last thing they did was a project about cultural inclusion - Primary problem with this was that it was really vague, and they don’t know what they want - goals from ERO
Current goals are to raise grades at the tail end of Pasifika students - Increase representation at top end of the achievement spectrum
Only starting this year with the digital technology requirement
Digital passport - mindlab
Mindlab is qualifying teachers in digital technologies
All the teachers at good shepherd have done the mindlab course
Primarily watching videos and asking quiz at the end
Tell me about the onboarding process for guests / volunteers
For guest speakers, Usually just send an email to admin / principal
Last thing they did this for was a project on renewable energy, they had the person that installed their school solar system explain how it worked, and how electricity works
Kids currently learn computational thinking on paper, already learning what algorithms are
Ministry says you have these objectives but doesn’t say how to achieve them
School curriculum
For juniors there’s a year 1-3 program but how to do them
Other Notes:
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Someone to basically tell us what they need to know and how to space it out - only limited time to teach it and it’s crammed along subject
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Only one hour a week for tech
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Kids are more like blank slates at this stage
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Hardest part is the introduction
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Preparing them for high school
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Had to be in context with whatever their teaching atm
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Hands on activities when speakers visit
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From year 5, to six they jumped from scratch to HTML and css
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You don’t have to plan when someone visits your class
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No lesson plan needed
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Staff room visits
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They have this hideous computer program to load information in - etap - one and a half hour staff meeting
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A lot of time teachers aren’t given enough material
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They aren’t given “here is all you need for the subject”
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The ideal course package
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Here is all the equipment you need
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Composting is easy to get resources
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Hard to get electronics, magnets, hard to get equipment
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High schools and intermediates get resources but primaries don’t
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Lacking certifications as well
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Can’t get microscopes
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Before chrome books some of the systems were 6+ years old
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IT guy only comes in once a week but the type of IT support schools can afford is terrible
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Lesson plan
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Finishing growth mindset
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SunSmart, drowning
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Science focus once a term
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Draw an inspiration phrase
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Informational reports and writing
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RE, religious education is hard to tie into tech
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Financial focus next term with maths
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Teachers find it hard to teach things that they can’t see the usefulness or utility in
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If they aren’t confident in something they either avoid it or bring someone else in to do it
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Contacting schools directly
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Teachers hate LinkedIn - can’t find jobs that way
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Jobs legally have to be in the education gazette
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Questions / Followup Actions
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Person / Group
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High School Teacher, Students
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Date
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27 Mar 2019
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Notes
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Focused around concept of impact projects that students do
6 month projects that extend up to 2 years max - 5 hours a week
Teachers on code of conduct?
Working with them as students go into internships
Onus on students managing that relationship? As we roll out student accounts?
Students creating account?
CC vly in to keep track of comms? Investigate later
Students running 200 projects a year
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Questions / Followup actions
How do we confirm if event took place? Haven't really sussed this out yet
Need to discern optimal level of oversight
Checkbox mechanism? Has this student request met X criteria?
Student view: Students posting asks
Some will not know what they want
Better suited to higher performing students imo
Some will go do this for me
Asking for checks and balances
Atm conclusion is that students can submit a request, but teacher has to review
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Person
Group
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Primary School Teacher
Primary School
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Date
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27th March 2019
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Notes
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Runs Gifted & Talented Programme
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Most students and staff use G Suite for docs and file management
New Curriciulum
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Tech Targets
long list of them
Create app
5-10 year olds - how does a 5yo create apps?
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Using Smart boxes / toolkit
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EV3 Robots
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Access to mindstorms once a week
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Mix of hardware / ipads / chromebooks / macbooks (NO PCs?!?!?!)
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10 Spare Macs
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Curriculum is very heavy on problem solving and planning for the future
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Need help understanding curriculum and mapping it to everyday language
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Follow instructions / six lessons to complete basics ie: how to use a computer
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There's a school competition called the robo cup - doing cool things with tech
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decisions on tech for the school are made locally
volunteering
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wants online teaching - what courses should I take? I want to get up to speed and know what courses to take
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Example activity
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crash course of how to make robots to do a more advanced thing
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subject is robotics, timeframe is next month
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commitment is 2 hours, adult to adult
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About:
We have Lego EV3s and they are currently coding visually, we want to learn how to code with language
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Location ponsonby, difficulty two stars
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Coding games with gifted and talented
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Student has an idea to scan rubbish and categorize based on rubbish type
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ie: recycled vs compostable vs landfill
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Adult to child with teacher
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One hour advice session on machine vision
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Machine learning
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goal is brainstorming and understanding problem
Vetting:
Visitors working in school MUST have vetting
They dont need H&S as they do it when signing in
For police vetting they need to see verification with referee number
But we can set up an MOU that puts the responsibility of vetting on voluntarily
Premeeting
Tmeframe
A> C
Time varies
Capture feedback
Like Airbnb, Mutual reviews, feedback on how they could do better
Option to share language for kids
Language assets
target at teachers level in curriculum
Voluntarily knowing what school resources are available
Requirements
Dependencies
Reverse > shoulder tap
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