Creating Tech Reo Rich classroom

An Amazing presentation given by Gemma Stewart, so many ideas using Te Reo enhanced by digital technologies....a few points.

Most people fear of wrong pronunciation the Maori language, important to have support in the school

Needs to be conscious decision to pronounce Maori properly, don't get LAZY.

Some little Gems

• Toku Reo - shows, great to use, 100’s there, not a substitute however for teacher to sit back.
• Te Whanake Animations - used at university, cartoons plus apps with books. Can be a little costly when getting the books.
• Moari Dictionary App is very good app on iTunes (be aware of google translate)
• He Reo Tupo - great website with resources and lessons TKI
• Te Aho Arataki Marau i te reo Māori mo ngā kura auraki - Te Reo Māori Curriculum for mainstream schools.

Some common apps or applications that we all know but Gemma told us how we could use these with teaching Te Reo

• Padlet - a collaborative doc - nice idea to brainstorm, different ideas, wall of ideas.
• Storybird - create stories with pictures - can get it printed out, or just share
• Addtext - photos and using Te Reo

I loved the gamification of 'Heads Up' - cool App to use with staff and students, get them to act it out, no voice

How to capture Te Reo????

• Vocaroo - Speakpipe - great to use in class, get link and add to scoial media or shared docs Soundcloud has own cloud
• Tellagami - using avatar - don’t need to worry about privacy issues
• QR Codes around the class

Twitter#tereo

And below is Gemmas pinterest with great resources

https://www.pinterest.com/gemst/te-reo-m%C4%81ori/

John Couch
An incredible man who has achieved some amazing feats at Apple and in education....some of his statements that resonated with me below.

• School was for him about memorising his way through school.
• A Vision inspirational a mission is measurable
• Model for Apple was based on relationships, did not have traditional values of running a company
• Difference between education and learning

	Education	Learning
Overall paradigm	delivery	discovery
Social structure	hierarchy	community
context	classroom	world
environment	simulated	real
content	fixed	open
assignments	recipes	frameworks
activities	Consumption and repetition	Construction & creation
infrastructure	Administrative focus	Empowerment focus
assessment	Teacher driven	community-driven
process	standardised	personalised
motivation	extrinsic	intrinsic
expectation	Grades & certification	Skills & experience

• Ask your self: Why does you school exist...not what
• Youth now are Digital native not digital immigrant
• Tech for students is an environment, not extra tools, as they were born into it. Tech is only technology to those who were born before it.
• iPhone - 2007, iPad 2010
• Students now expect "Feedback in real time"
• Apple new vision in 2008 saw classes as relevant, creative, collaborative and challenging 
• Challenged based Learning - like project but students pick the challenge/question 
• Book - The end of average, how to succeed - Todd Rose
• Company called eSpark - unpacked every education app - https://www.esparklearning.com/
• apple.com/nz/education/everyone-can-code - coding is the next stage.
• Look at Swift application - real coding - https://developer.apple.com/swift/
• 5 000 000 jobs going in USA cause they can’t find anyone that codes

1986 - TPACK began its evolution - http://www.tpack.org/

Tech was brought in, it was about the tools and how this assimilated into our teaching.

Booker has added another circle which makes TPACK now TPACK+ This is the Special Character of the school - the vision, community, special interest it has, uniqueness of the school etc

He also suggested playing with size of the shape? Shape - change the size dependant on your knowledge of each one

2016 and I am at the uLearn conference in Rotorua. It is a chance to keep in the loop with what is happening in education, see how the environment is changing with the implementation of digital technologies and how this is forever changing and challenging. However at the base of all the bells and whistles that we are sure to see it is important to have the right lenses on...that see how we can authentically use what we find to enrich, empower and add to the students learning.

Check out my uLearn16 Page and Twitter feed.