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Last Day and the Exam (or not)  This year during lockdown we have all led ubiquitous learning: available anytime-anywhere-from anyone. The accessibility of rewindable learning has been valuable in my personal life-Nadia Lim cooking show during lockdown- it has been valuable for the children who engaged in this. It meant that whanau could access it at a time when suited the whanau- not necessarily between 9-3. So looking back at 2020 so far in terms of ubiquitous learning.. What am I proud of? Being able to quickly work out how to set up and run a google meet with the whanau. This was cool and from parent feedback Google Meets were what our children really engaged with and looked forward to. The face to face connecting with their friends and teachers.  What do you regret? At the time... nothing as I didn't know what I didn't know.. as far as I was concerned we were a little step further than the school sending out photocopied papers( but if they didn't have access to a devic...

Empowered learners and teachers. Really focussing on concepts when we talk about technology - offering new opportunities and accessibility. Voice, Ownership and Choice of learners was very evident throughout the lockdowns- if it wasn't engaging they didn't bother spending their time doing it. Empowering children leads to empowering whanau with the new opportunities technology provides. Think about online shopping, bill paying, entertainment and information. Evidence from longitudinal studies show that children are entering school in some areas with a mean functioning "age" of 3. Motor coordination, academically, emotionally are all 1/2 a lifetime behind before they even start.  So what can we do to start change? If you intentionally teach young people to have conversations then you can start to backfill their oral language skills which lead to improvement in comprehension and understanding-which has benefits across all aspects of life skills.  In my new entrant teachi...