CORE Eduction were hosting a free day with a focus on the draft Digital Technology curriculum. Hosted at the new ACG Tauranga, the day began with a keynote by Mike Walmsley of Code Avengers. Mike again reinforced the potential of the IT industry in NZ for creating jobs for our students in the near future and how important being exposed to digital experiences is throughout the education.
How the curriculum helps to teach digital technologies #COREdigitech pic.twitter.com/h2qTK4X4jB
— Natalie Baker (@NatJBaker) August 13, 2017
Here’s a link to the day’s collaborative notes with some additional take outs for me below.
Breakout 1 – Design Thinking with Nicki Tempero
Design thinking #coredigitech pic.twitter.com/9Vf50OWFMS
— Nicki Tempero (@nickitempero) August 13, 2017
Have blogged about this before and this session presented the 5 steps in a slightly different fashion.
- Link to the presentation
- Filtering the ideas: Safe bet, Long shot, Darling
- Feedback on the pitch: Rose (Positive), Bud (Opportunity), Thorn (Challenge)
Image: https://stevemouldey.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/agency-and-ownership/
Breakout 2: Coding and Robotics
- Link to presentation
- Coding with Osmo
- Robot – Dash and Dot
- Robot – Sphero the rolling robot
- Virtual reality including Google Expeditions
- Importance of Mindset
Final breakout was a walkthrough of Code avengers – a site initially designed to support on line learning for NCEA Digital Technology curriculum.
Made a connection with Tessa Gray and joined up to CORE’s Edspace, and a couple of VLN groups. On one of the posts, found this video which resonated with me about the challenge for schooling in the 21st Century.
