What Learners think about their Learning

From a survey with year 9 learners, in Aug 2017.

49 learners responded to the survey.

One of the questions was about what learners thought might help their learning. They were given five options to respond to:

• connecting with learners from my previous school to talk about my learning
• teaching others online about what I am learning
• working with my teachers to help design the learning
• having extended time with my teacher to get to know them
• connecting with older students 

61% of learners thought that 'working with my teachers to help design the learning' would be very helpful or extremely helpful for their learning.

61% of learners thought that 'connecting with older students' would be very helpful or extremely helpful for their learning.

Small Group

From this data I decided to focus on a small group of learners to work with them on ways to design learning together that would engage them.

http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-resources/NZC-Online-blog/The-7-principles-of-learning#centre

I wanted to include the 7 principles of learning so this is what I decided to do. The learners could choose from a range of topics from the cybersmart curriculum so that they were learning about what interested them. Learners developed essential questions and were in groups of 2-3 as they choose. The expectation was that learners would create a digital learning object to show their learning.

I used this site to make my teaching visible.