Tākaro

Tākaro: Learning through play

Our kaupapa:

To be creative, innovative, entrepreneurs. The focus this year is to avoid the trap of becoming digital zombies but rather, make stuff, design things, interact with the world of play in innovative and creative ways.

We asked Students to reflect upon the learning they had done in term one. This is what they said:

• I have had Fun 88%

• I have made new friends or connections 55%

• I have participated in a team or group 70%

• I took the opportunity to lead others 21%

• I created something new 38%

• I was challenged with my thinking 43%

• I got better at something 64%

• I increased my knowledge about something 63%

• I was persistent 38%

• I went outside my comfort zone 34%

Some Quotes:

"I had fun with hanging out with friends and drawing. I challenged myself in trying to draw a Van Gogh painting. I was persistent in completing my picture. I increased my knowledge of how to do digital art."

"I have created a Web version of atari breakout, I had to figure out java script, I got better at python, & tried to fix my errors in the code."

"King's Dilemma has made me talk with more people and defend my position with greater confidence."

"I made a lot of new friends and got a lot better at Civilisation and created a wonderful Nation."

"It was really fun while it lasted to play Valorant with my team I made some more friends and yea just had fun"

"I really enjoyed DND despite it being my first time playing the game. I went out of my comfort zone as well."

"DnD Helps problem solving and teamwork, I didn't know anything about it."

"I ran a dnd group, which was quite tricky but I had fun and introduced people to this awesome game"

"I started to talk to people I don't know more, which is really strange for me, (I was motivated by wanting to ) tell the story of people via videos. I learned more about making videos, editing, drawing digitally and other games."