Once again, I learnt a lot from our sessions today.
Dorothy talked this morning about "Sharing" as one of the "legs" of our pedagogy. Sharing is such an important aspect of our pedagogy, especially with implementing a Future-Focused curriculum in a digital environment. Our parent community became more aware of sharing in a digital environment during the lockdown period. Students were able to share their learning not only with the world out there but also with their parents! While many parents were working alongside their child at home during remote teaching and learning, they became part of the whole Learn, Create, Share process.
As Dorothy stated sharing online also promotes "learning to finish", in other words, to get something ready to present. With sharing their learning online students see the end product and enjoy the feedback they get from others.
L, C, S pedagogy is not only linear. Sharing is actually part of an inquiry cycle and can spark a new cycle of learning.
Dorothy also talked about blogging as a vehicle to teach our students good online citizenship and to be cyber smart. I like the analogy Dorothy is using about using a safe car to learn to drive. That is indeed what it is.
I found the session on Google Sheets very useful. I use Google Sheets as well as Google Forms very often for administrative purposes and especially in terms of presenting data as part of Achievement and Effectiveness Reports.
I would like to explore MyMaps further, especially for teaching purposes and maybe to map out our bus routes with more detailed information.
Below is my attempt to present a snapshot comparison of the number of views we get on a post about a school trip versus a post containing information for parents to read.
Thanks for sharing your findings on the blog post types Casper. This certainly is food for thought, because you are using the school blog to get all information out and yet parents are selective in what they choose to follow. It would be interesting to see how it would rate if it was presented in a different way. For example, maybe a school notice using a DLO from a student to hook the parents in. I wonder if this would increase the number of views if they were looking to see if their child(rens) DLO was featured?
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