Today I was most inspired by Vivian's session. There was a lot of thought provoking discussions on the Ten Break Through Technologies -Bill Gates. It tends to make you question what else will be invented within the next ten years. How will these inventions impact people? will they hinder or will they be a convenience? During the session it was great to be introduced to the Sort Me activity. It was good to use computational thinking in a practical way. There were no devices needed and I could actually see Maths links. I would love to do this sort of task with my class. It would be great to adapt it - around who lives the furthest from school? It was interesting to learn around debugging -the what if's around two people who have the same answers. The resources off the Trail Blazers website would be wonderful to explore and to try out. I tried Scratch-coding website last year, and I enjoyed doing the lessons that were put on there. It will be neat to get the children to create their own mazes.
During the lunch time it was good to lesson to Makey Makey. I think this would be a fantastic resource to use at school as an introduction to electronics and to coding. I particularly like how with Makey Makey there are multiple learning opportunities with this resource. There were lots of other takeaways from today's session such as Junior Scratch, Zombie Circuits.
I could see the circuit idea working for games the students could make.
Hi Joy. I also found the discussion on the future technologies interesting. Who knows what will be next and who knows what is being designed and trialed right now! The trolley experiment discussion was also interesting regarding morals and ethics - this would be interesting to unpack with the older students within our school setting with a "Christian/Catholic Ethics" hat on.
ReplyDeleteHi Joy - I really enjoyed the sort me activity as well. This is definitely one I'd like to introduce to my class, especially my students who didn't get very far in their scratch animations. How did you go on the binary number system?
ReplyDeleteHi Latini,
DeleteI need to spend more time on the Binary System. It was a bit challenging. I'm not a numbers girl and need more time to read up and consolidate before teaching it to children. I was introduced to it last year, when I did these Mind Lab modules on the new Digital Curriculum, but it was earlier last year.