3. Blended e-Learning
PLD Providers for the Ministry of Education.
Māori and English Medium, New Zealand wide
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4. Kaupapa
• Karakia and Mihimihi
• Blended e-Learning
• Māori learners
• From PROfessional to BROfessional
• Pasifika learners
• Blended e-Learning tools to engage and
support Māori & Pasifika Learners
• Takeaways
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6. What is a Blended Learning Community?
• opportunities to build and develop on what we know
already
• synchronous and asynchronous components
What it is not:
Geographically bound
Delivery orientated
What it is:
It is actively inclusive of all the people who have an interest
in the learners’ development
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7. What do we mean by ‘blended’?
“Blended learning systems combine face-to-face
instruction with computer-mediated instruction”
(Graham, p.5, 2006)
Focus is not the technologies
But the way they are integrated ‘blended’
Effectively designed learner-focused experience
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9. Key Characteristics
• Offering ubiquitous opportunities and interaction
• Across different spaces, from physical to virtual
• With and across time constraints
• Across a rich range of media
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18. Formal Education for early Māori
• Roles and responsibility (hapū)
• Natural capabilities - Māori Potential
• Brave, bold, independent
• Observation
• Participation
• Assessment in real life contexts for
a real purpose for an audience who
had a vested interest, and with whom
they had genuine, caring relationships
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19.
20. Some scary Statistics
• 18% of all Māori students will not have obtained basic
literacy and numeracy skills by age 10 compared with
4% of Pākehā students.
• 34% of all Māori students will leave secondary
school without a qualification compared with 13%
of Pākehā students.
• 16% of all Māori students will become
disengaged from any of education, employment
or training by age 17 compared with 6% of Pākehā
students.
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21. • Poor
• Hungry
• Tired and or sick
• Inadequate, overcrowded housing
• Parents don’t value education
• Parents don’t do homework with their children or
come into school
• Poor behaviour
• Lazy
• Don’t value education – it’s cooler to fail
• Are not as smart as other kids
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22. Māori and Pasifika students are
not failing in our education
system,
Our education system is failing
them!
If you have one Māori or Pasifika student who is consistently failing
in your school, your school is failing Māori and Pasifika students.
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23. A
BROfessional
e-Learning Approach
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24. A PROfessional way to explain
BROfessionalism
• Consider a BROfessional approach when working
with Māori learners
• How does it align to ‘Something Māori’?
• Ways of our tūpuna
– Use of analogies/parallels
– Use of metaphor
– Really good story tellers
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25. BRO
• BRO – Whanaungatanga
– Bro – Whanaunga
– Term of endearment
– Cuz
– Breaking down barriers
– Sense of belonging – being part of
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27. B Blending
• Blending – implies something has to be done
• Blend of what?
– Blend of approaches
– Blend of strategies
– Blend of the good stuff
• Me kīnaki – To mix/stir
• Me kōmiri – To sort
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28. R Relationships
• Establishing relationships
• Receptive - a relationship can not begin
without people being receptive
• Links – whanaungatanga / te hononga
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29. O Open
• Open to ideas
• Removing barriers – Being overt
• If you give, you give it all/pulling out and
putting in
• Opens up avenues – Allows access
• Acknowledging who your students are - Where
& Who they come from – Not just about the
what
• Sharing a little about yourself – Why?
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40. Relationships with People
‘It is important to consider the cultural
background of children and their parents in
relation to how feelings and emotions are
expressed’.
(Lisa Terreni and Judi McCallum)
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41. Relationships with Time
‘…an understanding about orientation to
time is important particularly when
entering into cultural contexts that are
different from their own.’
(Lisa Terreni and Judith McCallum)
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42. Relationships with Nature
Relationships with Nature
How cultures relate to nature
How cultures relate to nature
and the different forces created
and the different forces created
by natural events also determine
by natural events also determine
certain beliefs and behaviours.
certain beliefs and behaviours.
(Trompenaars and Hampden
(Trompenaars and Hampden
Turner, 1998)
Turner, 1998)
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44. Pasifika Resources /Links
• MOE Pasifika & ESOL Resources
• Tongan Language Resources
• Victoria University - Samoan Language Resour
• CORE Pasifika Excellence Group
• TKI Pasifika Education Community
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45. “ It’s a shared
It’s a shared
responsibility!
responsibility!
“It takes a
“It takes a
whole village to
whole village to
raise a child
raise a child
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46. What are Māori tamariki typically
good at, strengths, potential?
• Sports and Physical Activity
– Co-ordination, competition, team-work, balance, fine
motor skills
• The Arts: visual, drama, music
– Expression, creativity, culture, performance
• Kapahaka
– Rhyme, repetition, practice, beat, rhythm, Te Reo
Māori, tikanga Māori, Māori World
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47. Māori Educational Success as Māori
Celebrate and excel in Te Ao Māori
• Te Reo Māori: kaikōrero, wero, karanga
• Whānau, iwi/hapū, whakapapa
• Kapahaka, Mau Rakau, Te Reo Kori
• Tikanga Māori: practices, karakia, waiata
• Kawa Māori / protocols
• Ngā Toi / Arts
• Kai: traditional kai gathering and preparing methods
• Place-based education
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48. What is Digistore?
Digitised Items
Learning Objects
Digitised items
http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/p/home
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49. The Māori resources catalogue
Step 1
Go to the Digistore wiki
http://digistore.wikispaces.com
http://digistore.wikispaces.com
Step 2 Step 3
Go to the Māori related Click on the image
resources page
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50. Alternatives to pen to paper!
• Track changes: available in MSWord and Pages
• Natural Reader: Free text to speech software
• Etherpad: Collaborative writing pad
• Literacy Learning Progressions: Blended e-Learning tools
to support the Literacy Learning Progressions
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51. Online tools & Websites
• Wall Wisher: online brainstorm with stickies
• Storybird: online story book writing
• Vocaroo: online voice recordings
• Animoto: great for visual mihi
• Te Mangōroa: links out to all Māori MOE links &
resources. Also has great snapshots of learning.
• Wicked: interactive Māori games for learning
• Kōrero Māori: some great resource booklets
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52. Ipad/Ipod Apps
• Ibooks Author: write and publish your own books
• Sock puppets: create conversations in Te Reo
• Hika: app to learn Te Reo Māori
• Te Reo Dictionary online: great online dictionary
• E-Wai: Te Wānanga-o-Raukawa waiata
• Te Pataka pukapuka: Māori readers for tamariki
• Kaitiaki: Bilingual Interactive game to enhance literacy
skills
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53. Your Takeaway Order…
• VLN Group: Blended e-Learning for
Māori and Pasifika learners
– Session PowerPoint with links
– Information on the Blended e-Learning
PLD programme for schools
– Other great links and resources
– Great discussion and resource sharing
– Continually updated
– Contact details
www.tetoitupu.org
54. VLN Group
Blended e-Learning for Māori and
Pasifika Learners
Janelle Riki: janelle.riki@core-ed.org
Anaru White: anaru.white@core-ed.org
Moana Timoko: moana.timoko@core-ed.org
Togi Lemanu: togi.lemanu@core-ed.org
Notas del editor
A Blended Learning Community provides opportunities to build and develop on what we know already which is the face to face environment So Blended Learning Communities comprise a percentage of synchronous and asynchronous components (from face to face to online) What it is not Is not geographically bound Is not delivery orientated What it is: It is actively inclusive of all the people who have an interest in the learners’ development What it is not geographically bound delivery orientated What it is: It is actively inclusive of all the people who have an interest in the learners’ development
Most importantly the focus of blended elearning is not the technologies but the way the technologies are integrated blended into an effectively designed learner-focused experience
Key Characteristics of blended learning can be defined as offering ubiquitous opportunities and interaction - Across different spaces, from physical to virtual - With and across time constraints, from synchronous, real-time to asynchronous, time-lagged learning Across a rich range of media, from rich multi-media to text only modes Why Blend? flexible approach to PD design schools can have agency extends face-to-face models effective use of ICTs for learning new opportunities to connect & share equitable access to resources de-silos practice
Skype – Collage of separate pictures? Te Kura o Kutarere Identified need to raise student achievement, high truancy levels Janelle and I were asked to read books in te reo Māori Using Skype teachers’ report has led to engagement of students, students leading their own learning and improvement in truancy rates All these leading significant improvements in achievement Interesting Wanting to know about us first, where we live etc. Relationship/Connections Told them where we lived, from. Presumed I played sport and that led to a lot of questions and established relationship
All these examples and these are the most known You Tube – second most used search engine on the net. Also has You Tube for schools. Free for schools to access lessons at different levels. I like the slogan Educate, engage and inspire. You Tube Teachers where you can submit your lessons and Learn Teach Share Story from mother about teenage son using You Tube for maths lessons at home iTunes U access to lessons from leading academic institutions Flipped Classroom – using this idea of reversing the classroom flip the classroom is another form of BeL students take the instruction at a convenient time leading to more time interacting with the students than lecturing
Because the economy was based on the potential productiveness of all community members, individuals were often encouraged to enhance their natural capacities. Relationships between teachers and learners were mutual teaching and learning experiences. Those relationships were expanded to include the whole community. Assessments were carried out when tasks were being performed before or with the community. The results may have been measured by the level of audience and participant support and enthusiasm. ( http://artsonline2.tki.org.nz/documents/MaoriPedagogies.pdf )
Children were provided with lessons which prepared them for the daily tasks of life. They learnt through observation and participation, as they tended gardens, gathered seafood or snared birds. Some children noted for their natural talents were assessed to see if they should attend houses of higher learning, where sacred rites, genealogy and karakia were taught. (Te Ara http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/nga-tamariki-maori-childhoods/2 )
As natural talents in children emerged, they were recongised, supported and encouraged. Realising Māori Potential: Ka Hikitia The Arts: music
The Arts: raranga, tukutuku, kōwhaiwhai
The Arts: Kapahaka Warfare
Orators and Leaders Curbing the will of the child by harsh means was thought to tame his spirit, and to check the free development of his natural bravery. The chief aim, therefore, in the education of children being to make them bold, brave, and independent in thought and act, a parent is seldom seen to chastise his child, especially in families of rank. (Edward Shortland, 1856)
It is important for us as educators to remember that Māori are Tangata Whenua, this country’s indigenous and founding people. They lived and prospered here in Aotearoa for many generations before the arrival of European immigrants. They had a very successful formal education system that was based on their own culture and their own way of living. The education system introduced to New Zealand was based on a Colonial Education system. Square pegs – round hole!
These are not the reasons Māori students are failing. The fault does not lie with something they bring in the gate with them. For too long educators have been using these as the reasons why Māori kids underachieve. These are the challenges we must overcome in order to raise achievement for Māori. Māori students must achieve in spite of these things. It starts and ends with us. It’s our job to find a way to engage and inspire our Māori students so that they can compete on a level playing field and achieve educational success. “ deficit theorising by teachers ... is the major impediment to Māori students’ educational achievements. The major influence on Māori students’ educational achievements lies in the minds and actions of their teachers’.” Russell Bishop .
Our Māori students have inherent, best ways of learning that are not conducive to the way we are teaching them. We must look at our teaching and learning pedagogy, our relationships with children, our connections to their whānau, iwi, hapū and our school culture and values in order to begin to raise achievement for these learners.
Align my thoughts with a Māori way of thinking
Research Language, culture & identity / Productive Partnerships – Te Mangōroa – Acknowledging what whānau want / Whānau & Student Aspirations
Research Language, culture & identity / Productive Partnerships – Te Mangōroa – Acknowledging what whānau want / Whānau & Student Aspirations
Pulling out and putting in ‘A little bit more’ Productive partnerships – Te Mangōroa Engaging whānau – VLN discussion post Connect with our communities – with and about –ICTs
Ākonga & Kaiako – wider whānau, hapū, iwi – whanaunga – BROs Brofessionalism takes place…to create, foster and make learning happen But where is this source of knowledge drawn from…???? What is above this???
Aligning this BROfessional e-Learning approach to Māori thinking – Māori Pedagogy – 3 kete – combination of 3 Developing this idea – Because there are stories about the baskets/the stones…before and after Downloading of knowledge….kīnaki / kōmiri – mix (Blend) and sort - Learn
Traditional Knowledge Based on beliefs, Non-negotiables – What our Māori children come with – Inherent stuff – by virtue of who they are – Ka Hikitia Educators have to acknowledge that our children come with more than what you see Language, culture & identity – Te Mangōroa / Ka Hikitia
Downloading of knowledge – E-Learning is learning that is encouraged and supported by information technology and communication technology. Information technology is critical to this generation, and is an effective means of teaching and learning. E-Learning allows: easy access to knowledge in New Zealand and the wider world from the school or home; the learner and community to learn together; the learner to have varied experiences, and experiences beyond the school and home Accessible knowledge/skills – Developing skills to use e-Learning tools – Developing skills to work appropriately & safely within the virtual realm / Derived my thoughts from the work of Tukaki Waititi 3 kete are visible Inorder to develop and access this knowledge…skills – relationships have to be strong Ako – Te Mangōroa / Ka Hikitia statement
Have to gain access to the knowledge within this basket – From Te Kete Aronui & Te Kete Tūāuri– Blend of knowledge Educators play a role to empower, guide & support our Māori Learners to access this knowledge – expertise Must be selective about what you take & use from this kete Keepin it real – by having a purpose to access knowledge/ gain expertise – possibly focus on a career Ako / Productive Partnerships – Te Mangōroa / Ka Hikitia NZC – Schools should explore not only how ICT can supplement traditional ways of teaching but also how it can open up new and different ways of learning TMoA E-Learning is learning that is encouraged and supported by information technology and communication technology. Information technology is critical to this generation, and is an effective means of teaching and learning. E-Learning allows: easy access to knowledge in New Zealand and the wider world from the school or home; the learner and community to learn together; the learner to have varied experiences, and experiences beyond the school and home.
Pasifika learners are not a homogeneous group – they have different cultures, languages and experiences. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to improving outcomes for Pasifika learners. Different needs for different learners Teachers and programmes needs to be flexible enough to address individual needs and to make the learning meaningful and specific to that student/s.
Three key ideas- You might like to use photos instead of text. Relationships with people Relationships with time Relationships with nature The 3 relationships are extremely important and they must all go together to make this work.
Knowing the Pasifika learner Their cultural background The community Interests Names,
Taking the time to ‘listen’ Time to establish relationships – Pasifika greetings, pronunciation of names Taking time to explore the different cultures Exploring who is in your community
Classroom environment Pasifika protocols when conducting a meeting An inviting school Signs and symbols in the different P
Pasifika learners become more engaged in their learning. Pasifika parents become more involved in their child’s learning. Relationships are strengthened More focussed learning Pasifika learners feel safe
The education system must work for Pasifika so they gain the knowledge and skills necessary to do well for themselves, their communities, Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific region and the world. Briefly talk about the Pasifika Education Plan – 2013 – Implementation plan included.