DFI Session 8: Revision

Manaiakalani kaupapa: Empowered 

Manaiakalani use the word empowered to describe developing agency in education. Dorothy discussed about how people in our low decile communities are disempowered because of many reasons such as low incomes, state houses, rubbish, health care and health costs, housing development in these areas, learners arrive at school with academic level of a 3 year old, low decile learners arrive at school hearing 32 million less words than low decile,  This means it is so important for us to empower our learners and teachers. Learners need 5+ a day back and forwards conversations a day. 
Manaiakalani has empowered these communities by getting them WiFi as well as 1:1 devices for all learners.
Devices/technology that has been delivered to the whanau has empowered and changed their lives. Eg online banking, YouTube to solve problems, doctors online, guest accounts on Google to empower whanau. 

Google Classroom

We do not use Google Classroom in NZ because it very limited eg task driven, teacher marked and returned to student. 

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