DigitaLee

  Questions: How can I use virtual reality to engage my students in developing digital outcomes to promote and preserve cultural identity? How can I partner with the kura, kaiako and ākonga, to develop a localised digital curriculum that celebrates our students and place? I want to focus my research question around building partnerships for the success of Māori learners, and using digital tools for developing digital outcomes. Māori learners, I believe hold a significant role in reshaping the information that is disseminated online. I want to encourage my Māori learners' knowledge and protocols and traditional learning frameworks, to seek inclusiveness within the curriculum. “We see curricula as more than simply program content, and embrace concepts of “knowing, acting, and being” (Barnett and Coate, 2005, p. 3) for the 21st Century learner” (Goode et al., 2018, p.397).  Acknowledging the principle of āta - growing respectful relationships, developed by Pohatu (2005),  ...

  Tataiako (Ministry of Education, 2011) explains the key Cultural Competencies for Māori learners as Wānanga,  Whanaungatanga, Manaakitanga, Tangata Whenuatanga, Ako. These key values underpin and inform my practise as a teacher.  Wānanga: participating with learners and communities in robust dialogue for the benefit of Māori learners’ achievement.  Whanaungatanga: actively engaging in respectful working relationships with Māori learners, parents and whānau, hapū, iwi and the Māori community.  Wānanga and whanaungatanga are possibly the more significant values that permeate my research and practice. The success or failure of any innovation is decided on with the quality of positive partnerships with those who are a part of the community invested in the education of the learners. Masturah and Cazden (Ismail & Cazden, 2005, p88) observe that “culture cannot be ‘added on,” or simply appended to existing school curriculum.”  This runs the risk of instituti...

  I am working in a different environment to what I have been in before. I have a relationship with the school I am based in, but would like to develop a better working relationship with the outside schools that come in to be a part of my technology subject. They too are stakeholders in the program I develop.  Specifically, I have a full immersion Kura Kaupapa school which comes to me on a Thursday morning.  Localised curriculum development a topic that has recently gained traction with the Ministry of Education in the development of the Strengthening local curriculum series (Ministry of Education, 2019).  The idea that has been highlighted is that student’s want an education that celebrates who they are, their place of standing, and the community that they are a part of. Developing a localised curriculum will aid in building and partnering with the community by seeking the input of students, parents, whānau, iwi, and hāpu (Ministry of Education, 2019).  “This e...