Google Summit Leaning Story - August 2015

Learners:  Aryan & Divya                                               Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: Technology and KCs                            Date: Aug 12, 2015

Learning Observed

Aryan and Divya made us all proud when they represented us at the first ever Student Google Summit on Aug 12 at Hobsonville Point Primary School.  They were joined by hundreds of other learners from around Auckland and facilitated and participated in some exciting workshops about learning with digital technologies.  There was a lot of work leading up to this day.  First, they met with Ms Wilkes to express their interest, brainstorm what they could present and then write and submit their pitch to the GEGNZ.  They demonstrated passion, commitment and skills while meeting their deadline.  This was their pitch: Google Sites for Learning Our habitat website is great because it helps my confidence and if we need to find something we can access it from our school website- ormiston primary.school.nz. We use our website to share links to websites we use, modelling books from the learning coaches, presentations about interesting topics and much more! Come to this presentation so you too can learn how to use a google site with your class and community. They were of course successful and were added to the programme.  They then had to create their presentation and including a fun kahoot game as well.  The learners decided it would be great if they could practice their workshops the day before to iron out any crinkles and so they were able to facilitate their workshops for the rest of the habitat. Aryan and Divya enjoyed the practice run with a group of 20 learners and responded to feedback,making some small changes to improve their presentation. Their scavenger hunt was modified for the summit.  On the big day they demonstrated confidence and resilience when many devices couldn’t access the internet.  We were very proud of the way they solved problems, remained calm, positive and supported the participants. Divya was very creative with a way to do the scavenger hunt with only one device- way to go!

Evidence of learning

Aryan and Divya practice their workshop in LH1      Divya and Aryan show real resilience in their presentation      The OrmPS Crew is full of google goodness!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Divya and Aryan showed they could relate well with others both in their collaborative effort in creating and facilitating their presentation and in responding to feedback.  They participated and contributed, managing themselves in 3 other sessions on the day and took their learning back to OrmPS to share with others.  They showed curiosity in the google cardboard session and made connections to prior knowledge.  They were capable at solving problems when there were technical difficulties and constantly collaborated to maximise their own learning and that of others.

Next Learning Steps

start thinking about their presentation for next year write a blog post about their experience teach family members some new skills/tricks they learned