DFI: Computational Thinking

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Empowered learners and teachers.

Really focussing on concepts when we talk about technology - offering new opportunities and accessibility.

Voice, Ownership and Choice of learners was very evident throughout the lockdowns- if it wasn't engaging they didn't bother spending their time doing it.

Empowering children leads to empowering whanau with the new opportunities technology provides. Think about online shopping, bill paying, entertainment and information.

Evidence from longitudinal studies show that children are entering school in some areas with a mean functioning "age" of 3. Motor coordination, academically, emotionally are all 1/2 a lifetime behind before they even start. 

So what can we do to start change?

If you intentionally teach young people to have conversations then you can start to backfill their oral language skills which lead to improvement in comprehension and understanding-which has benefits across all aspects of life skills. 

In my new entrant teaching experience, I have seen a real decline in oral language and interpersonal skills. In our class now we currently have an Oral language range of 3 years-8.5years... Same age children, same city- completely different starting points. 

Computational Thinking: Kerry Boyde-Preece

We want our people "to be at home in a digital world."

Difference between being a "digitally fluent and digitally capable person".



Cybersmart Alignment to the Digital Technologies Curriculum. 







Tried to sign up for the exam next week.. many people experienced difficulty completing this process. I will have to redo it tonight when I have my cards.

Had a wee look through coding sites/apps. In our studio, Codapillar is popular with most learners. I forget that you don't have to be plugged in to do this. Think about writing instructions for making toast- getting to another point in the classroom. What works well? what do I need to? Do I need to debug or change the instructions? 

Had a play on Scratch- this is not really my thing and I became off-task easily. I can see how this is really engaging for some- just not me. (I felt like I was walking in  the shoes of some of my disengaged learners).










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  1. Sharon SpraggSeptember 13, 2020 at 5:44 PM

    Kia ora Lisa,

    Voice, Ownership and Choice of learners is such a key part to operating a classroom sometimes. How do we give voice and ownership to students? As you say at the end of the blog, disengaged learners are part of a classroom. I guess the question is why are they disengaged? With your situation, was it that you didn't have the capacity to extend your learning with scratch or was there a different programme that would have engaged you more? Was it the time of day or did you need to move your body in order to focus again? So what is our role amongst all this? I guess we could ask these questions all day.

    All the best for your exam,
    Sharon

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