PD: Digital Technology

Digital Technology – Amanda Bayley.

Computational thinking for digital technology resources

Don’t be afraid to use the resources the school has purchased, in your classroom. There are often students who can support you!!

Teacher Only Day - March 21st - Digital Technology 

Geoff is clearly gifted! He’s a talented Jazz musician and travelled with a group called STOMP, as well as beginning as a web developer in the late 90’s. He’s a part of charitable organisations 

We were asked to begin with a Karakia with hand actions. We did an Oral/Choral to practice and Geoff explained what this means - This karakia reflects a learning journey. 

Dancing - if you had to describe in words what you were doing (a certain dance move), it is very similar to coding - sequencing

Code Spaces EDU

Music and Binary

Boots and cats - on/off binary 

“Reaching students through multi modal learning”

We were given a few resources and asked to create a game using rules: If, then, else - when creating games you can include loops etc.

Brainstorming, making decisions, testing prototypes, iterating and evaluating - the design process - for digital outcomes.

Design process recording sheet - there isn’t always a ‘problem’ - it could be creating a game/song!

Cospaces.io  - a code will give us  00 licenses free for a month. Like Scratch but in 3D

Interactive stories, galleries, songs etc. You can type straight into the gallery and find what other students have made. COSGEOFFB 

Buttons are input switches that we control. There has to be a complete circuit for the switch to do what it’s programmed to do.  

We had an opportunity to code the Microbit to make an LED light flash. I found this quite easy and got mine to flash alongside the Microbit LEDs in a pattern. Just had to remember that it was a loop that required pauses to ensure the lights weren’t always on!

Had a quick chat with Geoff about incorporating digital tech into the fabric room. This could be something as simple as students designing garments that meet a required need - perhaps something futuristic - and refine their designs. No garment construction is involved, just the concept design and refinement.

Macrame was also something else he suggested as there is a process to follow - knitting, embroidery, and crochet etc.