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** June/July 2008** | ** June/July 2008** | ||
- | * Meeting with [ ]Primary School teachers to meta-plan Awhiworld uncovery project. | + | Meeting with [ ]Primary School teachers to meta-plan Awhiworld uncovery project. |
- | * Alternative Education Students from CEAT Ltd put together music visual exploration of Smiths Avenue Netball Courts. Material is shown at a Matariki (Maori New Year)event (27 June 2008) attended by Mayor of Papakura. M/V asks for physical reactivation of Smiths Avenue space. [[http://un-fiction.blogspot.com/2008/ | + | Alternative Education Students from CEAT Ltd put together music visual exploration of Smiths Avenue Netball Courts. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
- | August 2008 | + | |
- | * Teachers create systematic and detailed lesson plans based around AwhiWorld concept | + | |
August 2008 | August 2008 | ||
- | **25 August 2008** | + | Teachers create systematic and detailed lesson plans based around AwhiWorld concept. Plans for unveiling of world begin in earnest. Expected launch date 25 August |
- | Awhiworld uncovered. | + | **August 08** |
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+ | 25 August 2008: | ||
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+ | 8.55am | ||
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+ | 9.05 am | ||
//"I am from the Patupaiarehe iwi of Pukekiwiriki. | //"I am from the Patupaiarehe iwi of Pukekiwiriki. | ||
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9.15 am teachers rush students to classrooms where messages have been hidden in special boxes somewhere in the classroom. | 9.15 am teachers rush students to classrooms where messages have been hidden in special boxes somewhere in the classroom. | ||
- | **August 08** | ||
Review meeting Teachers update as to activities thus far. Several have introduced a special powerpoint story made up for this programme and based on an old Maori myth of the area. [insert powerpoint]. All teachers are asking students to write or draw about a future earth that is now not able to support life due to current activities. Notes and feedback available in detailed form offline. | Review meeting Teachers update as to activities thus far. Several have introduced a special powerpoint story made up for this programme and based on an old Maori myth of the area. [insert powerpoint]. All teachers are asking students to write or draw about a future earth that is now not able to support life due to current activities. Notes and feedback available in detailed form offline. | ||
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**November** | **November** | ||
- | Gatekeepers and guardians were introduced by Raewyn and Maggie. When asked what portals were the children said: "they take you back in time", "they take you to another dimension", | + | Gatekeepers and guardians were introduced by Raewyn and Maggie. When asked what portals were the children said: "they take you back in time", "they take you to another dimension", |
**December** | **December** | ||
- | Awhiworld rests quietly over the summer season while schools are out. Two new guardians sit in the garden watching over the portals. Work is taking place in the school so that ICT infrastructure is up to date. | + | Awhiworld rests quietly over the summer season while schools are out. Two new guardians sit in the garden watching over the portals. |
**Overall Results** | **Overall Results** | ||
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+ | "Great for boys to keep them engaged". "Excellent to stimulate their imaginations". "Much harder work than normal curriculum as you are working with their imaginations rather than hard data". "Fun to not give The Truth..but to play with this with the kids". "Needed a little more focused energy..too many other things going on in the school and couldnt | ||
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+ | My comments: | ||
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+ | * Digital component of Awhiworld was unable to be explored due to poor ICT capability | ||
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+ | * Constantly felt like I needed more time and that I needed to be in the school more to support..but noticed that I kept arriving at the school after an absence of a week or so and would see a tremendous amount of work done in a short space of time without any input whatsover. | ||
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+ | * Concept of Gatekeepers/ | ||
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+ | * Too many ideas and not enough resources. | ||
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+ | * Give that was the case the project was a successful experiment in so far as it developed the teachers and pushed them to extend their learning and practice. It also introduced children to different ways of learning maths, science, social science and english making links between some of their leisure activities and learning. | ||