Ngā Matapakinga | Discussion

Thanks Jacky, I'm just watching/listening now to the live feed - the third instalment of the CORE Collaboration Framework all about working with the wider community and in particular, Māori - iwi, mana whenua,whānau, runanga and local hapū.

Talking about genuine partnerships in collaboration - beyond consultation. Equitable partnerships doesn't mean 'equal'. There might be more we can do as educators to make the partnerships genuine. What do you think about community partnerships from a Kāhui Ako perspective?

Out of the mouths of babes... a little bit old, but still gold!

I have the MOE response report if you need to see it, they have listened to some of the CAG  recommendations.  Awaiting the reviewed curriculum on December 12th including the new diagram showing the tech curriculum where they have addressed the achievement objectives and progression outcomes.

NCEA Level 2 and 3 Achievement Standards are up on the web for those wanting to trial them in 2018.

It's a great graphic. Sadly digital technology is a very broad and encompassing term that can be used to describe many things in education. Here in NZ it refers to the DT specialist curriculum. Digital Literacy is what a lot of teachers need (as in upskilling) and there is, I think, going to be a more concerted effort to increase the literacy of teachers. After all, if the teachers can not do it or understand it, how can you expect pupils to?  Digital literacy in my view is the responsibility of all teachers, not the DT teachers.

Kia ora Tessa

I've found this EDTalks from @alexhoterebarnes really helpful when considering actions or steps to take towards supporting Māori to succeed how they want to succeed in our mahi.

Alex Hotere-Barnes - Addressing Pākehā paralysis with non-stupid optimism from EDtalks on Vimeo.

Alex talks about having a knowledge of your own cultural identity first, understanding and knowing some levels of te reo and tikanga Maorī and knowing who will benefit from those, being part of the process to help rejuvenate te reo Māori – an important element is to ensure that pronunciation is correct, so practice often to improve your pronunciation and establishing and nurturing long-term relationships (over the long term) to support educational change, so that Māori are not harmed from our educational system.

Alex also talks about the importance of overcoming or working through Pākehā paralysis, so that our educational systems is more  inclusive and socially just. What is your take-a-way from this short video?

If you're keen to see the final breakfast seminar on Multiculturalism - register for the Auckland seminar and workshop by clicking here.  I would love to see you there - Friday 10th November :-)

The biggest thing that challenged me was Ann Milne and Andrew Judd in evaluating my practice, attitude and vocabulary to see where my actions and language perpetuate the colonialist view of education and create inequity in my own and others practice and environment.

Kia ora and thank you for the invite Carolyn, I'll send a call out via Twitter (#uLearn17) and invite people to add some of their wonderings, issues, grapplings in this discussion thread before the panel discussion. 

Kia ora and thanks for this invite Helen, I'll also send a call out via Twitter (#uLearn17) and invite people to add some of their wonderings around the new Digital Technologies curriculum in this discussion thread - before the panel discussion. 

Because of this post it has heightened my  senses when I come across different readings/posts etc. A post about unexpected bias in artificial intelligence caught my attention as many points within the post are relatable to what we have been discussion in this thread.

In particular this statement:  Bias arises based on the biases of the users driving the interaction.

5 points covered in this post:

1. Data driven bias

2. Bias through interaction

3. Emergent bias

4. Similarity bias

5. Conflicting goals bias

I quite like these 5 points as I think with each one I can relate to something in my practice (a story). It also resonates the importance of what has been said in prior posts in this thread about how we begin to establish relationships and ensuring we all have an agreed shared understanding. 

What do you think about some of these bias identified and how they relate to the way we operate and interact?