KidedchatNZ Census

Roll call! This year is a Census year. A census is a big question form that gathers lots of information about all the people in New Zealand. The census only happens every 5 years. It is a snapshot of the New Zealand population on one night every five years and is compulsory to complete. If there is one this year can you work out when the last one was?

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So this year it is time for the Kidsedchat census so we can find out more about YOU and what you want to chat about this term! Is there a topic you would love to see discussed? Do you have similar interests to someone at another school in New Zealand? Join us on Wednesday at 2pm to find out.

Here are the questions for this years Kids Chat Census

You might like to use the data we gather to make a graph and show it off next week!

Q1: What is your favourite subject at school and why?

Q2: Do you have any pets? What are they?

Q3: What is your favourite food?

Q4: What is your favourite sport?

Q5: What is your favourite hobby?

Q6:The Census video talks about finding out if there are enough parks do you have a park near you? Do you think your town/city needs something else to play on?

Q7: What topic would you love to see us do a Kids Chat about?

Q8: Why do you think this topic would be interesting for others?

Q9: What would one of your questions be for others if you created a Kids Chat?

Q10: Why do you think the government does a Census every 5 years?

Creativity, Passion, Talent and Inventive Thinking

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This week's topic is about your creativity, passion, talent and inventive thinking.

Part of the chat is flipped so make sure you watch the Kid President's

YouTube clip on how to be an inventor. You may also like to physically create or just draw a picture of something you would invent to make the world more awesome. There will be an opportunity for you to share your inventions during the chat. 

    Teachers, you may also like to watch the 'Creativity Takes Time' YouTube clip yourself and do this mini lesson with your class. 

1. What are your interests, talents or passions?
2. How do you get to learn about your interests in the classroom? Give us an example. 
3. Do you think it's important for children to have time each week to learn about something that they're interested in? Why?
4. What is the world's most important invention so far? How does it affect your life?
5. The Kid President wanted to invent a Catuum Cleaner. What would you like to invent to make the world more awesome? *Opportunity to share a photo via a tweet here. 
6. "In 2006, Facebook was in its infancy, Twitter was being launched, and nobody had iPhones." Twelve years on, the world is a very different place, and so is the workplace. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time? Have a read of this article from the World Economic Forum. 

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/10-jobs-that-didn-t-exist-10-years-ago/

7. Inventive thinking requires taking risks, being curious and thinking skills. How do you do this in the classroom?

8. Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom?

9.Sometimes we get stuck with our learning and have to problem solve. What does good problem solving look like?

@Juliet_Revell will be your moderator and I hope that you will all be using the great digital citizenship skills that you are learning. 

Make sure that your teacher's name is listed in your twitter bio so that we can contact them if necessary. Remember, we don't use emojis. Emojis are for informal writing. We are representing our schools and showing our values. 

See you Wednesday at 2pm.

Rules and Values - What are they good for?

Rules and Values - What are they good for?

Week 3 Term One 2018

Rules and Values - What are they good for?

1. What are rules and values?

2. Why do we have these in our classroom, school and community?

3. What are some of the rules in your classroom?

4. How do your classroom rules influence your learning?

5. What would your classroom be like if you had no rules and you could do whatever you wanted?

6. If you could make a rule for your class what would it be?

7. What are your school values and how are they displayed?

8. How do you think your school values link to your learning in your classroom?

9. What are your family values that have importance to you and why?

10. Find someone else’s twitter answer to question 9 that is similar to yours and share what makes them similar and what affect this value may have on your life as you grow up.

How Are You Going To Be More Awesome In 2018?

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We hope you had a wonderful summer holiday and that this
year will be a great one for everyone!

Information for 2018 as follows:

• Our first chat will be held on: Wednesday 7th February
• Time: Wednesday between 2:00 - 2:45
• Blog posts: Questions will be posted on the blog
  a week before the chat on a Thursday afternoon.

We look forward to chatting with you again this year!

Q1. How are you going to be more awesome in your learning
this year?

Q2. What is one thing you will do to make this year great?

Q3. What are you looking forward to most this year and why?

Q4. Describe your current learning environment.

Q5. What do you need to work on this year? What are your goals?
How are you going to achieve them?

Q6. What are the things that drive your learning?
What are the things that block your learning?

Q7. Kid President said, "Life is School, you gotta show up."
What does this mean to you as a learner?

Q8. What would you like to learn about this year?

Q9. Reflecting on your learning last year, what piece of advice
would you have given yourself?

See you Week 2 Wednesday!