Evaluation of Kootuitui's holistic approach

In the period 2016-2018, Kootuitui ki Papakura was excellently supported by the Middlemore Foundation for Health Innovation. The Foundation provided most of our funding and also offered expertise in system development and the building of stakeholder relationships. With our pilot period coming to an end, the collection of data across all three strands was pulled together and analysed. The report attached here is a testament to the hard work of everyone involved - the trustees, employees, volunteers and key partners. Although our outcomes may be more apparent in the medium and long term, there are many indications that such an holistic approach as we take does lead to some very real positive outcomes, even in the short term. Coupled with recommendations for further development, this document both acknowledges areas of strength and achievement and encourages us to continue to iterate to achieve our vision of ensuring lifelong outcomes for tamariki.

https://sites.google.com/kootuitui.org.nz/papakura-kootuitui-trust/research

Smart Relationships

Here are some learning activities that I put together for one of the teachers I am supporting this year. Resources have come from Manaiakalani and Google, as well as my ideas. Only a few students got really into the Pick-a-Path story, which I thought would be very engaging but wasn't. The reason for this I think was that I probably needed to do some prior work with the students on algorithmic thinking so that they were in a good position to understand the planning process required for this activity.

Smart Relationships

Here is an online book I made with Book Creator. It works easily on chrome and is now good for chromebooks as well as tablets. There are many choices of colours, fonts, shapes and backgrounds, as well as the ability to upload images, record and also read aloud.

Cybersmart Smart Relationships

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

Google Certified Educator - Level 2

Kootuitui Whaanau video using Adobe Spark

Finally, after many hours, I got the final version of the video saved and ready for sharing. I decided not to do a voice over as I didn't want to have more issues with it that would affect what I'd already achieved. I also decided to make it a square format as it's easier to view on a phone and tablet. The major learning has been to keep the number of slides small and to wait each time I uploaded an image so that the programme had time to save as I made it.

And then I uploaded my video to my Youtube channel and here it is there:

Spark Adobe slides to video trial

I created a simple slide presentation into video using Spark Adobe. This was my second attempt and it only has 5 slides. This is because I started with creating a video of about 25 slides and discovered that the programme saves EXTREMELY slowly, so I decided to use a much smaller number of slides and the result was much better, especially if I am thinking of trialing in a class next term.
When my first attempt finally saves, I will also post it to this blog. It has a work focus and the purpose I was creating it was for the Kootuitui website as an artifact of the work our whaanau have been doing over the course of the year.

Critical Thinking and Fake News

During the Developing in Digital Worlds workshops, I observed many teachers creating learning experiences for their students based on collaborative reasoning and argumentation. I considered how, as a facilitator, I could create some engaging learning activities along this line. Classes were studying 'digital footprint' and had been assessing sites and emails for signs of phishing. They were learning how to detect lies and stay true. I considered some of the topics that we had covered in the DIDW sessions and thought about how these could be incorporated with lie detection and came up with the activity above.

It was quite challenging as it required students to read the information on the site I had provided with respect to the statement in blue and then find two other different and reliable sites that corroborated that message. When they could do this, the 'Rule of 3' can be assumed to mean that the statement is true. It was difficult because students had to read the whole texts that they were given and also that they accessed. Sometimes the heading or title made a statement that wasn't actually proven by the text. Often, the crux of the text was right at the bottom of a fairly long article and students had to persevere, scroll down, by-pass adds etc to get to the end.

Some students made a very good attempt. I also learnt that allowing students to do this with one or two others helped them all to complete it. Have a look at:
Hailey
Brianna