Inclusive classrooms (web) A series of case-study videos where relationships are at the heart of learning. These stories demonstrate how e-learning tools can be used to build relationships and engage with Māori learners, whānau, and iwi. e-Learning tools provide new opportunities and contexts for personalising learning with Māori learners to ensure they enjoy success as Māori.
Where to start? (web) Get to know your Māori students and what is important to them. Start with students' culturally-located needs and strengths. Use digital technologies to create a collaborative learning environment. Identify tools that enable students to share their learning with you, other students/akonga, parents, and whānau. Use local Māori contexts (such as whakapapa, environment, tikanga, language, history, place, economy, politics, local icons, geography) to support Māori learners’ learning. Integrate knowledge of local context, tikanga, history, and language – including the prior knowledge that ākonga bring with them.
Te Mangōroa (web) A resource for English-medium schools. It is a portal to stories, reports, statistics, and reviews that reflect effective practices to support Māori learners to achieve educational success as Māori. Te Mangōroa contains practical illustrations of what the Māori education strategy, Ka Hikitia Accelerating Success 2013–2017, means for teaching and learning. These examples come from a wide range of schools and offer a wide range of examples of where they were at, what approaches they used to get started, what worked, and what didn’t, and how they measured their success.
He Kohinga Rauemi ā-Ipurangi (web) an extensive online resource for finding anything published by the Ministry on Māori topics across curriculum (eg: journals, Te Reo Māori readers), which can be ordered through ‘Down the back of the Chair’.
Creating a digital mihi (web slideshare) Mihi is a way of establishing a connection with an audience. We are looking to tell a story, to establish links or find commonalities, to establish our identity and in some cases to establish our credibility. Mihi are traditionally delivered orally but using a digital format enables accesssibility for all. (Multi lingual, sign language, voice over recording, text and images). Adding images allow you personalisation, to tell your story your way, images give us more information than text alone can, you can add sounds and music to your images. Images = building a story = building a connection, we are more likely to engage when someone shares information as a story, the act of storytelling relaxes us, makes us feel safe, is familiar to us, allowing us to more easily process and retain new information.