Tahotaho

 

Tohatoha - Share

'Humans are born with an innate need to share and in doing so 'connect'. Picture the centuries old drawings and designs on cave walls. Definitely 'sharing'.

The pace at which 'sharing' has moved, our access to others' sharing and how we can share is moving at the speed of light. This 'Sharing' can have a range of effects on us from positive to negative and all the steps between. Using the wide range of tools to grow and then share ideas, knowledge and new learning in meaningful and positive ways is something we as educators need to think and act carefully about.

In Education we want to share to learn, to finish learning, to demonstrate learning, to seek feedback on learning, to feed - forward on learning,  to start new learning and to connect to others. I'm sure there will be other purposes too.

This week's DFI learning focussed on creating and then sharing learning using sheets and blog posts. Sheets are well known in the Google Suite but have soooooo many more amazing features to deepen our 'sharing' than I had realised and the work in presenting and analysing data using the blog posts demonstrated the ease at which this can be set up and done.   

What did I learn?

Below is a screen shot of the things I managed to create in sheets in the half hour session.

Sheets has an in-depth set of features that I know I will use to support the work I am doing in collecting, collating, featuring, highlighting and using data. A really great tool that I have totally underused!

 

The later session allowed me time to collect, collate and analyse data.

The idea that we can then share our analyses with the slides to back up our thinking in such a simple way is fabulous. I found this part of the learning a real treasure and have already begun using this to help collate and analyse data for my work.

Tahotaho 

All of these wonderful tools require lots of practice. The magic will be seen when we normalise their use and make them a part of how we do things!