Cook Island Summit 2022

 Cook Island Teacher conference Link

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This was a great opportunity to connect with educators and the tech industry leaders in the Cook Islands from 08-14 October 2022. The location was fitting for an event like those to enable educators to connect and immerse themselves in the local culture. It was especially nice to meet all the local teachers and visit Apii Te Uki Ou school in Rarotonga. I believe attending and networking are not enough to affect change. For me this is all about:

Connections| Taking Action | Being consistent | Re-connecting

I also delivered an Esports workshop. The slides can be found here. 

More photos here

Below are the workshops attended with actions to will follow up on. 

Workshop	Covered	Action points
Chrome Flex Fusion	USB installation less than 10 minutes	Whole class installation of getting all students to work on a sustainability project  Students who install 3 working laptops with Chrome flex get a free laptop.
Video notices / pasifika  Te Maeva Nui News! The Big Celebration	iMovie	Broadcasting  Students
Drone - Kent Somerville	Use and learn to fly a drone for our Kura and in the classroom Tello drones  DJI Mini
Session 5 Google  Steve Smith	Slides Teacher centre  Google workspace for education Google student personalised learning environment Enhance content - applied digital skills program Google Arts and culture to digitise the entire collections of worldwide arts. Go into a museum anywhere in the world! Cameras are taken into the ocean NZ to film the sea and take people virtually there. Also outback of oz.  Google Earth - junior water walkers. Use projects and share your own story and share.	Google certified trainer  Learning with Google AI Cloud Computing  Can publish our story on Google Earth. Great for numeracy skills. Place pin on places, coordinates and angles. Google screen recording into Chrome:  Students can screencast and share back with teachers Use the pen Transcribes  Photopea - same controls as photoshop (Chrome app) Cursor note-taking app
Jude O’Neill Session 7 Peer writing and review using Google  Slides	Mentor teachers to PRT’s of literacy and classroom practices  Understanding the literacy Scaffolding Books that support Goals working on  Choose Genre Writing for an audience	Books that support teachers' planning and writing

Petcha kucha 6 mins long

Deb Sherley 

Oral Language 

Oral language profiles addressing reading and addresses teacher challenges 

Tracks progress including images

Targeted intervention pages

BookFlix website of books 

 

Alida Maritz - Papakura 

Digital Leader - 

Resource created for new teachers

Assessments

Acronyms and abbreviations 

Tracking sheets 

Professional development records

All schools with a link to the site

Rewindable 

Jonathan Nevalangi - East Auckland

Action 

Videos are powerful to connect with all people from society, especially parents and the community

Video to share Screencastify

Meet video with students 

Give students a script to allow them to share their own progress

Camera’s to connect

STEAM Academy - Papakura High School

This was our first hui where the students and teachers in collaboration and support from the Ministry of Education and OMG Tech have been involved at Papakura High to start the process of setting up a STEAM academy. The key stakeholder throughout these meetings is students, aspirations, and vision for their school as youth leaders in this space. Three students were invited to attend the meeting to start this journey. Hearing the year 10 students' ideas and vision for what the Graduate Profile would look like and the positives of implementing STEAM was impressive, to say the least, as they were certainly thinking out of the box. 

The seed was sown when students attended the Tech 21 summit last year. The idea of an I.T. Academy came out of this, however, what was needed was a holistic approach and 21st-century thinking, involving the bigger subject areas. It has been my passion to enable students to follow their strengths and do what they enjoy for a living to pursue a career pathway that is simply not just a chore, which also brings about immense joy for the individual. 

STEAM @PHS Meetings

STEAM Equity Meeting 

Attendees: OMG Tech, MOE, and Teachers from PHS

Date: Sep 1, 2022 

Action / Lookup	Main Notes
Academies USA Hasting Boys Schools Linfield College  Edgewater College The research behind this shows great results in the USA and Schools here in NZ	Vision: link in with our values (pou’s) Mana Motuhake (Student Agency) in control of their learning have the self-efficacy to believe in themselves to reach their untapped potential Why is this important: Pathways to Employment Working on what students enjoy Academies: Trades  STEAM  Business  I.T. Engineering Science  Service Student's voice: Resourcing: Devices  Support (Coordination, Literacy, and numeracy) Future proof and sustainability Building resilience and capability Common skills  Barriers: Whanau engagement Awareness of school projects Inclusivity Businesses (Engineering,  Career Exposure Discover true passion Work on Students' strengths and their interests  Community Focused Graduate profile Pathways to careers  Opportunities to explore all areas  Opportunities to participate in mock interviews, field trips and  Soft skills: Critical thinkers, Collaborators, Presentations, communication Wide range of careers -  Wellbeing and self-care - Help Heal and Serve Hasting Boys Schools - Academies based on the Trades Academy approach  Some schools still have both options with traditional learning and opt into programs such as Edge Innovation Programme
Summary
STEAM Academy’s research in the USA and NZ  Challenges and barriers Sustainability  Student's voice was powerful! Graduate profile  Positives shared

Esports Comp

Kura High Rocket League Competition on 20th August 2022

This past weekend, Kura High hosted its first ever Esports competition for Rocket League on the 20th of August and the whole event was streamed live on Twitch. We had seven teams from all age groups a total of 21 students, from Papakura High, Rosehill College, and Ardmore School. Rosehill students took 1st prize and our students took 2nd and 3rd Prizes of $850 plus some spot prizes for the runners-up. There was a buzz in the hall and the excitement on the student's faces was priceless! In one team there were two girls who won the 3rd prize and had only played the game once! Students got involved in hospitality, Kura high film crew filmed the whole event. Students got involved in shoutcasting (broadcasting their commentary). 

Mr. Singh spent over a year planning this event. Prior to this event, students had already attended two competitions for the Rocket League in Invercargill and Halo Infinite at Armageddon, Auckland.

Well done to our winners and to every team that entered and gave it their best!

The event was a huge success in that it brought young people of all ages together of all ethnicities, cultures, and genders. This is one area esports is accessible to all who participate and attend. This was a community event as we had invited schools from Pukekohe High, Manurewa High, James Cook High, Alfriston College, and Rosehill College to enter. Students from other schools happened to be in the school for their weekly music lessons and heard all about our esports event, so they popped in to experience the atmosphere and see what all the fuss was about!

The students are now keen to help host the next esports competition in term four. 

Tech 21

Papakura High School students at the Tech 21 Summit on the 24th May 2021

The Ministry of Education and NZTech have partnered to host Tech21, to inspire ākonga (learners) into technology careers.

Whaia te pae tawhiti kia tata, Whakamaua te pae tata kia tina!

Explore beyond the distant horizon and draw it near, take hold of your potential so it becomes your reality!

https://technz.nz/industry/

Technology newsletter Term 2022

Technology dept

Clubs

The technology department is running the following clubs at Papakura High School: Coding, Esports, RAD (Recycle a Device) and Filming Club.

kura High Filming Club

We have Mrs Imlach who is facilitating during the weekly club sessions. Students have written a script for a horror film due to be released shortly. Caden Awhitu was fortunate to win the best drama award for Maorilands Rangatahi Films. 

Caden Awhitu

 Other short films include: Samoan Language week, Whanua sports day and the school promotional video.

Instagram page | FB

Esports

A year and half in the making from thinking about esports to now putting things into action for our rangatahi is an amazing milestone for the school thus an opportunity to take 9 students to Invercargill to compete in a Rocket League comp. We came 9th and 10th and took home $500 prize money. 4 students took it upon themselves to also compete at the Halo Infinite comp. These students came 12th out of 35, a great achievement considering this was their first-ever esports comp! Rangatahi have been regularly practising during morning tea and lunch and they want to now host a Rocket League comp on the 20th of August for students at PHS. We are receiving guidance from Microsoft to ensure the event runs smoothly. 

Launching Esports  

RAD - Recycle a Device 

The club has been dormant since the students received their initial training at the start of term one from remojo Tech and their team in partnership with RAD. Students, Julian Abel and Satchet Singh received refresher training. We are in a position to launch the RAD club Thursday 7th July. Club members will have the opportunity to take ownership of their designated roles, understand the club goal and receive some prizes for the students sent to us from Bronwyn Scott from RAD. 

Coding Club 

The weekly coding club has been running every week, with interested students attending and learning to code through game-based coding such as Minecraft. Some students have been practising their Python coding on the Grok website and some younger students from Intermediate and Primary have been coding using the Scratch platform. 

TECH22

Rangatahi from Papakura High attended the TECH22 summit on the 30th of June: The exhibitors were from Microsoft, Trademe, Tesla, She#, 3 Bags Full, Weta, Datacom, Engineering and construction, Media Design School, Geo A.R Games, Kiwa, Holmes and Amazon. Kura students enjoyed talking with the Tech industry as well as the opportunity to sit in a newly released Tesla and had a demonstration of VR (virtual reality) gadgets used in the construction industry. Some of our rangatahi are now considering a career in Tech! 

Here is their flipgrid video feedback from this awesome event.