MindLab Blog 2019- Part 2

What? Upon starting with the MindLab course, my main goal coming into this was to upskill myself with the most current technology tools and knowledge as I wanted to feel more confident. I had graduated from a four-year teaching degree many years ago but had only relieved since then. I felt like I was getting behind the times. Participating in this course it has gone beyond my original expectations. It has completely changed my teaching practice. As I am a beginning teacher I came from not having a lot of teaching practice, especially within a classroom as I also teach via distance. I was able to identify that engagement was an area that impacted on the quality and quantity of teaching that would happen. It was important for me to target this area and implement change so that I could make connections to the disconnected students and their whanaus and start making that difference, which was the reasoning behind wanting to be a teacher in the first place. Now what? As Osterman ...

To what extent does gamification impact on behavioural engagement for distance learners? What? The evidence from my 'Take Action' phase shows, that the number of students that logged into our online platform before I started my inquiry compared to the end, that there was a significant increase. The impact of having ClassDojo implemented into my teaching practice was highly beneficial not only for the students but also to their supervisors. The valuable feedback that I got from the student's supervisors was all positive, they loved how Classdojo was keeping them informed with how their student was doing and also loved the connection it provided to their student's learning, and also to me as their teacher. Some of this feedback was displayed in the feedback collected by the Google Form that I sent out, however, some were in conversation over the phone or face to face. One other thing that I cannot single out and provide evidence for is the number of times that my stud...