Create is designed as a hook for our learners to motivate our learners to ENGAGE with the curriculum. Teachers are navigating a new curriculum and many are feeling the pressure that comes with delivery. This means the idea of empowering our learners to create falls directly into the 'too hard, too much' basket. O’Connor pointed out that when 'Aotearoa New Zealand led the world in literacy in the 1970s, the curriculum contained a heavy diet of the arts, especially at primary school level'... “We chucked the arts out, and what we've done is continue to focus on these literacy and numeracy projects, which have got absolutely nowhere,”
The creation process requires students to actively manipulate information rather than passively receive it. Our learners need to be the creators of content, not just the consumers who swipe to view content that is created by others. We need to provide learning opportunities that allow our tamariki to reorganise information in new ways, make decisions about what is included or excluded by being able to explain their thinking. Create is about engagement. It is about hooking our learners into learning so they benefit from what we teach and the way we teach it explicitly.
Providing opportunities for our learners to create allows for learning environments that foster engagement, motivation and curiosity so that new learning may be applied in meaningful ways by capitalising on opportunities for conversation and collaboration.
In Manaiakalani we have powerful create tools that are easily accessed by every learner. It is our job to harness these to help ourselves and our learners make sense of the new learning Te MÄtaiaho present us with.
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