Sunday, September 13, 2020

DFI 8 - Computational Thinking

Manaaikalani - Empowerment:

Digital access has given students access to learning especially this year - 2020.

We do need to make it appealing as students learning online from home will simply not do the work. Fortnite and Tiktok are our competition - Matt Goodwin

Read more from: Nigel Latta, Matt Goodwin

Money empowers you to make more choices:

$19,000 vs what others earn. Working poor.

Move, housing, remove rubbish, Good Guys - 30% interest, money from benefit, health, 2174 - measles

Low decile - mean average capability of a 3 year old

                     - 32 million words

                     - 1/3 turnover in schools

Digital empowers people to take more control over their lives.

5+ conversations per day are necessary.

$3.50 per week over 3 years for a Chromebook.

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The New Digital Technologies Curriculum

Computational Thinking

Technology Practise, Knowledge, Nature of

Two new areas:Computational Thinking for Digital Technologies - think like a computer scientist
Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes

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DFI Deep Dive - Future of Tech

Just - wow! some things I wasn't aware of that are out there!

Ethics and Morals...

Senarios:- VERY hard to do...!!!

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Explore option: Kia TakatÅ« 


https://kiatakatu.ac.nz/


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GOOGLE EXAM


Register with Proctor U

Sign up for scheduled time next Friday.

Incognito Window is recommended.

Check your equipment

Install extension

Can't go to specific websites

2nd device to Google things...

Expectations

Photo ID

Testing your equipment.

Reschedule next Friday to take the exam at the time.

Spend 90 seconds on each question.

US$10.00

EXPLORE:

Lightbot - This was good, fun and simple to use

Couldn't do scratch without an i-pad

Minecraft - Couldn't figure this out... Kelsey pointed me in the right direction and I ran out of time!

Kodable - This was quite fun - did the bug one. But again couldn't figure out how ot do it - haha!

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DFI Create had another go at Minecraft coding. It's not as simple as it seems - I am a beginner though!

Discussed process with Bee-Bot

Draw a square on the mat with an apple as a goal.

Get kids to diret each other

Then draw up the directions

Then feed those directions into Bee-Bot

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