DFI - day 8 May 7 - Computational Thinking

Todays 'Connecting iwth Manaiakalani session was around empowering our learners.  There was a discusion around the use of the word 'empowering' instead of 'agency'.  It was mentioned hat people in  lower sociao economic groups often have negative connections with the word agency.


This session reminded mea bout wanting ot create a graph around my students blog posts.  This would be a good activity to do for tomorrow's lesson on blogging

Next we had a session Intro to computational thinking and Hangarau Matihiko
There are some fantasic resources in this slide.
A key mesasage is that digitially fluent teachers lead to digital fluent students - just as well I am doing the DFI.

Some resources i want to go back and look at in more detail

• CS Unplugged - Party Magic
• The vocab used on slide 15 - good to introduce this vocab to students
• slides 16 and 17  have WALTS in kids speak
• Kerry has also linked the Manaiakalani cybersmart curriclum to the New Digital Technologies Curriculum
• Slide 19 links to the exemplars and snapshots from TKI

I signed into Kia Takatu a Matihiko.  I had already signed in last year at Karoro but believe it is probably a good time to redo some of these toolkits.

I had a play on Microbits.  Here is the link to the project I made for Paper Scissors Rock

The rest of the day was spent exploring coding.  I have take an note of quite a few which I will use with my class.  I will give one to my students during Home Learning next week to explore

Here are some of the ones I liked

https://lightbot.com/flash.html                          https://studio.code.org/s/aquatic/stage/1/puzzle/1

                           https://studio.code.org/flappy/1

https://game.kodable.com/play?hc=1&type=home&user=vfwn3fm&showSpace=world