As outlined in today's NZ Herald article, Covid19 Omicron outbreak: 15,540 new community cases, 952 in hospital, 2 deaths, Auckland covid cases are said to be "on a downward trend".  However, also stated in the article, "schools across the country are feeling the impact of the Omicron outbreak".  

What does this look like for "our" students?

Since the beginning of the 2022 school year, I have inquired into various aspects of Hybrid Teaching and Learning, and how this learning approach may be used to enable our learners to achieve.  As outlined from the list below, this has included inquiring into initial takes on Hybrid Teaching and Learning, Student Voice of Hybrid Teaching and Learning, what we've (Techies) learnt from Lockdowns, Understanding the variables to make it work, and the Hybrid Timetable.

At this stage of the pandemic, with Omicron as the main Covid19 variant, and also at this stage of the year, it is too soon to come to any conclusions about the long term impacts or benefits of Hybrid Teaching and Learning for learners, but also the long term impacts or benefits to educators; particularly educators who are in the classroom.

What is clear is that teaching and learning has evolved, and continues to evolve at a frenetic pace, in response to the Covid19 pandemic.  It will be interesting to see what student achievement looks like as assessment data becomes available.

The following is a screencastify on a quick task that I've set with my learners, so that I know, that 'they' know, how to access their learning on my site.

This was a timely reminder for learners to know how to access their learning, while they are in the classroom, as well as when they are offsite including during lockdowns.  It is also an extremely useful for students who are new to my subject and are completely new to Tamaki College.

Animation Example

The following is an example of the Animation that has been used in the Create an Animation in Scratch to Share your Learning workshop.