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In 2011 we developed the phrase
learn create share (ako hanga tohatoha)
to encapsulate the learning experience for our young people.
It has become the pedagogy for effective teaching, accelerated learning in a digital world.
Learn
Learning involves passion - first and fore-mostly on the part of the teachers. Ian Fox once said, "When a school and their community have discovered the key to learning for their community, it doesn't actually matter WHAT the method is as long as everyone embraces it wholeheartedly and drives it with passion"
We have spent many years in the Pt England community consulting with our constituents, analysing data, trying new things, evaluating and simplifying. We have discovered many keys to our students' success along the way.
Much has been written about this in other parts of this document and in the NZ Curriculum.
The Pt England learning and teaching pedagogy has been developed through extensive professional development through TAP (our schooling improvement initiative) and working with Dr Gwynneth Philips, Jannie van Hees and Manaiakalani.
It has also been informed by a variety of other work eg. Ruby Payne (The Language of Success), Prof Peter Dowrick ( Creating futures through video self-modelling ie the multitude of positive movies we make), Professor Bobby Hunter (DMiC), Alison Sutton (Talking Matters) et al
In short, we acknowledge that decades of work discovering how OUR children learn informs our digital age pedagogy and is the foundation of it.
Learn / Ako: an overview presented by Manaiakalani
Create
Our children are highly creative and we have discovered that a key to engaging them in the learning process is to devise (or co-construct as they get older) opportunities for them to express what they have learned in creative ways.
We have also discovered over more than a decade that our children are very talented users of digital media and so we have endeavoured to give them opportunities to creatively express their learning using these tools. This short piece from Ala explains in her words how she views this.
Create / Hanga: an overview presented by Manaiakalani
Share
Post 2005, when YouTube was born, our human compulsion to share has been enabled in a way that would have been unthinkable even 10 years prior. Every person on the planet has the potential to live life as the star of their own movie - not only sharing the daily minutae, but also the commentary, the analysis of it and creating collections of feedback and feedforward.
- Our learners have known no other world.
We are providing opportunities for our learners to share their learning, in appropriate online spaces for a number of reasons
- Digital Citizenship ( becoming Cybersmart)
- Lateral Learning Networks (connected learners with learners)
- Accelerating Achievement
- Threaded conversations
- Whānau engagement
- Record of Learning (Portfolio)
We are committed to providing opportunities for our students to be creative with their learning and to share it appropriately via the media of their generation: television / cinema, live 'performance' and online
Our classroom learning reflects the learn.create.share.pedagogy.
- We describe how learning is occurring in our programmes for our learners.
- We describe the creative opportunities our students are going to have (often through creating a DLO - Digital learning Object)
- We describe how this is shared online and how it is interacted with, usually on their blogs
Share / Tohatoha : an overview presented by Manaiakalani
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