Computational Thinking! Wow.... so as we got into exploring the concepts of computational thinking I quickly came to realize that is some ways I am, and have been for a while a computational thinker :-)
Looking into the many aspects of this concept is really quite mind blowing especially to see what is available to our teachers as resources to implement great learning environments with their students. Not only on line but offline (unplugged). This gets our students using 'Algorithms' i.e. step by step instructions on how to reach a desired outcome. The scope in using this is huge. Developing digital minds in our students, and ourselves is imperative in this ever changing digital world of ours. I have high praise to all you teaches out there and how hard you work to get all these resources to be available to your students
The Future of Technology is pretty scary, especially looking at it from the 'moral' point of view and we played around with that concept in a deep dive with Maria, which gave us all a great deal of 'food for thought'.
Once again, it was neat to touch on the Manaiakalani Kaupapa and today it was around empowered learners and teachers. As always Dorothy was full off interesting and pertinent information for us to take on board
Vicki talked us through the steps of registering for our 'exam' next week and gave us a few tips. Thank you Vicki.
Last, but definitely not the least we looked at Coding, to be honest I think I will leave the teaching of our wonderful tamariki to the experts.....our awesome teachers...... this coding thing takes up way too much brain power lol. We spent some time creating with code. I did not get too far into it but here is the start of my experiment with coding, which has huge room for improvement and maybe I will find some time to improve on it. 1st Coding effort
Kia ora Debbie,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your thoughts in a really well written post, there were a few chuckles as I read it :) Coding can take up a lot of brain power, but what a powerful way to hook students in to mathematical thinking, and problem solving! The Future of Technology really is food for thought isn't it. I think it's so important we talk with our young people about the moral dilemmas here and make sure they are aware of who is involved in the programming of things like driverless cars (rather than just being excited by the new technology!).
Best of luck for the exam tomorrow.
Ngā mihi nui
Vicki