Empowered Students and Teachers
Technology assists the making of connections by enabling students to explore new environments and overcoming barriers.
Embedding the Treaty of Waitangi: Partnership: working together. Participation: no one left out. Protection: All are safe.
The New Technologies Curriculum
A digitally fluent person can decide when and why to use specific digital technologies to achieve a specific task.
A digitally capable person can create their own digital technologies solution.
What Digital Tools can do
One thing that we spent quite a bit of time discussing today was the future of technology and what things have already been created to be aware of. It's so amazing yet quite unnerving learning about the robot Sofia who was given official citizenship in Saudi Arabia in 2017 and the cars that are self driving and have to be programmed to make decisions on who/what to hit/avoid. We also saw digital tools that people use to impersonate others to create Fake News. There are so many different aspects to teach our young digital learners to be aware of, to avoid, to ignore, to believe etc.
Coding
We looked a variety of different Coding Opportunities to help develop our understanding of computational thinking. I had a bit of an explore on studio.code.org. This was a Minecraft themed activity. In all honesty I found this very boring but I have seen children playing this and really enjoying it. Below is a quick screen shot of having a play with Scratch. I do find this these coding programmes challenging. I don't have the patience for them. Scratch Junior would make a great 'Can Do' on the ipads for the children. This is will also be a great opportunity for some tuakana - teina with our buddy class.
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