How the heck did that happen? We are in February already. This year, I will be teaching 1 year 9 science, 2 year 10 science, year 11 Earth and space science and year 13 general science. An interesting mix... I've already spent a little bit of time playing with my planner, attendance sheet and markbook (the latter two are duplicating information on our SMS, but I like Sheets, and I like to nose at data in my own way). I am trying not to plan too far ahead at the moment as this part of the year is notoriously changeable. I get to meet my new whanau y9 students and my y9 science class this week, as well as one lesson of year 10s on Friday p5. We have also got Waitangi Day on Thursday which is a public holiday celebrating the founding of Aotearoa New Zealand.
I'm not sure I have the word for the year, and I certainly haven't looked at any of the "wrap" summaries reminding me of things I've not done enough of/ too much of from last year. I know I haven't spent enough time on things that I love (such as reading) - too much mindless scrolling on social media. I could have spent less time on this, definitely, but as someone I follow online (I'm aware of the irony here) reminded me, we make time for the things that we think matter.
I have made a conscious decision to scale back the number of tools I use, especially in planning and admin, where I'll usually subscribe to anything going (free) and then get bogged down - I have blogged about that before... My lesson planning is a great example of this. For some bizarre reason I still have a black planbook (one of the standard ones here in NZ), a subscription to Planbook (until May, then bye bye), Planboard, Notion and my Google Calendar. Notion took a lot of setting up, and while it has some good features, I'm not sure it is what I want. I always end up going back to Calendar.
I have been thinking about AI for obvious reasons as well. I am concerned about it as an environmentalist; the warming this is going to cause could be devastating. But, the time it can save people in their work MIGHT be worth it as a pay-off (the jury is still out). I passionately dislike AI art and music - it should be there to allow people to save themselves time for work things so they have more time for the creative stuff, such as art and music. I also dislike the way that so many AI models scrape from artists and musicians and they get nothing as a result.
As they say, watch this space. I am going to use some of the teacher AI tools judiciously this year and I'll report back as I do.
After a day with new year 9s, I'm shattered. So time to make like Led Zep and ramble on.
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