22/6/2021 Computational Thinking
It's been fantastic to bring things together over the last week. I have set up a system to make a multimodal slide deck for a couple of our themes and I have a template that I can use and also my team can use. It was a really cool buzz to have the share slides added to the Olympics slideshow with children from across the syndicate using it on their I Pads today. The children from my class are using them so its great that my 5 year olds can access these resources too.
The Olympics
Empowerment- Dorothy Burt
Empowerment means choice. Low incomes can have such a impact for whanau. Limited incomes, limited housing and basic low quality housing, families who use loan with high interest rates, health issues- families do not access family GPs, children arriving at school mean of a year old, the need to have heard 32, 000, 000 words prior to starting to school, children who are transient. Manaiakalani empowers communities and individuals. The ability for children and whanau to have choices
We can do things to change the challenges that we face in our classrooms.
Training children to have 5+ a day for oral language conversations for every child in the class. Also thinking about 5+ a day for reading books at home.
It is also empowering as children have they access to resources- through using chromebooks and it empowers children, whanau and the whole community.
We did a really cool unplugged activity in computational thinking with sorting numbers. It was a really fun activity and simple to show simple algorithms.
The future of Technology
We had an extremely interesting discussion about ethics and the Moral Machine Activity - a platform for gathering human perspective on moral decisions made by machines It was actually quite mind blogging and the thoughts around what the future potentially could hold particularly the decisions that we make for our children with references to artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology. The Digital Technologies Curriculum
Consumers being user- we want our students to be creators- they want students to be creating content, to be empowered to be creative in the space.
Systems are created by humans for humans, although technology is not infallible.
Coding- OMG Tech
Coding- providing instructions and options/choices- computational thinking with variables. Variables are structure that holds data.
We were given the example of using coding in Writing- Storytelling, narrative, procedure texts
We can make stories through https://twinery.org. We can try using Mermaid to teach coding language and flowcharts.
It has been such a great day and it has also been such an amazing time doing the DFI. I really
have loved everything that I have learnt and the adaptions that I have made to my practice and
to my class programme. I was so very nervous prior to starting and it has been such a great
learning curve. Every session I have come away with something new to do or a new trick up my
sleeve. It has been so good to investigate the google suit and I feel like I have put a huge google
jigsaw piece puzzle together. I have also enjoyed the comradery of the group. Sharon, Emily and
Vicki are amazing facilitators- I particularly appreciated their patience and their positive
feedback. I also really appreciated seeing Dorothy Burt each week- it was fabulous that she has
shared the pedagogy behind Manaiakalani- again this has helped strengthen my understanding
and I am making connections to how we can live and breathe Learn, Create, Share and the
Manaiakalani framework in my class, Syndicate and our whole school.
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