Tēnā koutou, Nau mai haere mai to this Edu-Fuse space under the umbrella of Digits. Ko Nic Mason ahau. I intend to bring some of my connections and whakaaro (thinking) to digital kaupapa through an education lens. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori took place from 14-20 September. The theme for the week is "Kia kaha te reo Māori – Let’s make the Māori language strong!" It’s a week that the beautiful language of Te Reo Māori is highlighted in the media and around Aotearoa. Let it be the start of your journey with the language, not just this week, but every day. Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI) is a ministry funded website full of excellent resources for our kaiako (teachers) and here is the link for digital tools for teaching and learning te reo Māori: https://elearning.tki.org.nz/Teaching/Inclusive-classrooms/Te-reo-Maori-digital-tools Within this resource you can find links to websites and useful apps that you can use to upskill your reo proficiency. Living in this digital age, there are so many opportunities for akonga (learners) to have access to whatever learning you are interested in! So, let it be the start of your journey with te reo, not just this week, but every day. It's been quite interesting reflecting on planning school events with the current climate of Covid-19 Alert restrictions. The first time we entered Level 3 and 2 Alert levels, the answer to a lot of our plans were “cancel it”. So we cancelled this and that - hours and hours of time spent planning was for nothing as everything was cancelled “due to Covid-19”... One example of looking through a more innovative lens, was to re-imagine what an Assembly might look like without the literal assembly of people. We turned the school office into a T.V. studio and broadcast our assemblies to classes and the community via Zoom. We called it an “Azoombly”. To get an idea of what this looked like, you can view it here. All of this brings into the fore 21st century skills such as un-learning and re-learning with creativity and dispositions that come with it. As we all know, the world is an ever changing landscape and what worked for “us” yesterday won’t necessarily be able to work for the “us” of tomorrow. Ka mihi nui ki a koutou EduFuse by Nic Mason
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