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Students/Children

DisengagedEngaged

Goals and Motivations

  • I don't think I understand technology nor do I see a reason to want to
  • If I'm participating at an event, It is only because this workshop/activity is better than regular class
  • I will drop whatever activity I'm doing and watch youtube/play io games, play flash games if unattended / unmentored
  • If I find the activity too difficult / I don't get help I will revert to games
  • In extreme cases ADHD or some sort of disorder

Goals and Motivations

  • I want to learn how to make/create things
  • I want to understand technology so that I can create my own stuff
  • If unattended I will explore the thing I'm working on and deviate by building things that differ from the assignment, often in an interesting way


High Level Success looks like…

  • Successfully demonstrate that tech can be cool, interesting, and is a
valid
  • career choice
as an industry
  • Conversion to engaged students
  • Student becoming super cool tech-literate people and the backbone of kiwi industry when they grow up
  • Retaining learning post event (higher level? Hard to measure)


High Level Success looks like…

  • Helping student transition from learner to mentor for other students
  • Preparing student for industry pathway into tech sector

Actions we want them to take to accomplish the above

Encourage
  • teachers/parents
into
  • getting them to
events
  • Attend tech workshops and events
    • Retain learning during
    • events
    • Continuing tech education post-event
    • Sharing events with peers
    • Tagging instagram posts/snapchat/hashtags
    • Sub to newsletter to find out about future events
  • Become super cool tech-literate people and the backbone of kiwi industry when they grow up

    • Actions we want them to take to accomplish the above

    • Encourage teachers/parents into getting them to events
    • Attend tech workshops and events
    • Retain learning during events
    • Continuing tech education post-event
    • Sharing events with peers
    • Understand tech subjects well enough to teach others
    • Sub to newsletter
    • Become super cool tech-literate people and the backbone of kiwi industry when they grow up


    Parents

    DisengagedEngaged w/disengaged student

    Engaged parent w/engaged student

    Goals and Motivations

    • I don’t understand much about technology
    • I don't see the value in taking my child to tech events
    • I see a tech event/workshop event as daycare / a place to dump the kids for a short while without giving much thought to the tech education

    Goals and Motivations

    • I want my child to succeed at life
    • I want to change my child's perspective on technology so that it is seen as an important tool
    • I believe that tech education will give my child a better life
    • I don’t want to have to bribe my child to do more tech things as the learning will stop the moment the gifts stop

    Goals and Motivations

    • I want help my child do more with their tech efforts
    • I want to sustain the momentum my child has built up learning about technology
    • I want my child to keep working on projects, attending competitions, and to become a STEM role model


    High level success looks like…

    • Demonstrating the value that technology education brings to their child
    • Conversion to engaged parent

    High level success looks like…

    • My child attaining a desire to learn tech skills
    • My child progressing from only doing things at workshops, to developing their own games/programs/projects on their own without any prompting or briefing
    • My child transitioning from disengaged with technology to engaged

    High level success looks like…

    • Ensuring student is consistently learning new tech skills
    • Child transitioning from student to mentor

    Actions we want them to take to accomplish the above

    • Motivate them to ask for help
    • Learning more about technology
    • Understanding that there are tech jobs and career paths in the industry
    • Taking their child to tech events and workshops
    • Ensuring they continue education post intervention

    Actions we want them to take to accomplish the above

    • Sending child to events
    • Request support helping their child transition if needed
    • Sub to newsletter to learn about more omg opportunities
    • performing volunteering opportunities and continuing to contribute by being a mentor to other children
    • Using our learning resources pre/post event to continue tech education

    Actions we want them to take

    • Ensure that the student keeps undertaking tech projects, either solo/in a team/with help from parent
    • Attend events
    • Encourage other students to take up the same challenges
    • Ensure that other students upskill


    Teacher

    DisengagedEngaged

    Goals and Motivations

    • Fearful of new digital technology curriculum (/ uneducated about it)
    • I want someone else to teach the digital tech stuff for me so I don’t have to learn it
    • I may have been engaged in the past but have been seriously burned by the pond /other initiatives - lots of effort went in only for it to get shut down
    • I get shown new education tools on a regular basis - I tend to forget about most of them after a month or so
    • I might be waiting to retire and cant be bothered picking up new skills
    • Help me do the least amount of administration possible


    High level success looks like…

    • I feel comfortable teaching the new digital tech curriculum
    • My classroom experiencing increased grades and satisfaction in exchange for minimal effort
    • Converting the behaviors from disengaged > engaged


    Actions we want them to take

    • Asking for volunteers on voluntarily
    • Requesting / Booking volunteers
    • Organizing events for students
    • Using vly resources as a teaching aid
    • Convincing students to apply for mentoring and other programs for young people

    Goals and Motivations

    • I want my students to have the best learning experience possible
    • I want every activity my students do to be amazing
    • I want to be the best teacher at my school
    • I try every tool I get my hands on, but dump the tool if the experience is terrible (ie: pond)


    High level success looks like…

    • My job becoming easier because…
      • It becomes easier to find volunteers to come in and teach my kids topics I'm not an expert in
      • Volunteers offering to help by taking some of the workload off me
      • It becomes easier to find things to do
    • Having an easier time justifying my career progression by demonstrating Professional Teaching Standards, especially as a graduate or provisional teacher


    Actions we want them to take

    • Helping students transition from disengaged > engaged > mentoring
    • Transition students to self-sustaining study / projects

    Volunteer

    DisengagedEngaged

    Goals and Motivations

    • Honestly, I don’t see volunteering as a good use of my time nor do I think I would enjoy it
    • As a corporate employee, I see my corporate volunteer programme as paid time off avoiding work
    • As a skilled professional I might have kids that take priority over volunteering
    • Most volunteering opportunities I currently see don’t allow me to fully use my skills


    High level success looks like…

    • Transitioning mindset from disengaged > engaged
    • As a skilled tech worker, doing more volunteering with students
    • Identifying candidates that enjoy volunteering with students
    • Mentoring the next generation of students


    Actions we want them to take

    • Volunteering at more events as a role model
    • For industry people, teaching more students and teachers using industry knowledge

    Goals and Motivations

    • I want to help my community by using my skills
    • I may have trained for a specific skill but don’t get to use it in my day job - I see this as an outlet for it


    High level success looks like…

    • Ensuring they don't revert to disengaged traits
    • Maintaining a flow of interesting things to do without being too overwhelming
    • For volunteers with families - keeping them engaged even when they have kids
    • For organizations that have repeating events - how to maintain continuity after they leave their workplace, or how to ensure a steady supply of volunteers


    Actions we want them to take

    • Maintain sustainable levels of activity in the community - unsure of the exact number
    • Converting other skilled volunteers from disengaged > engaged