Day 8: DFI - Computational Thinking

 Day 8: DFI - Computational Thinking

I have had a rollercoaster week! Only being in class for 2 days and getting some upsetting news in my personal life had me feeling very overwhelmed. 

Empowered:

This really hit me hard for myself. This was my life growing up as a child. As an adult it was and has been hard breaking the cycle and managing everything. I could go on but however, it is what drives me to be a better person, teacher and a mother!

When I was studying, we had a rangahau project for 2 years. I focused on Poverty in our low decile schools in Tairawhiti and how our schools are supporting their students and whanau. One thing for me is that I am passionate about children who are from those backgrounds. I was one of those children. 

With this session I found that, Manaiakalani kaupapa of empowerment is important. I would love to be a pilot class for manaiakalani next year within my school. 

The greatest joy comes from Empowering students to… be life long learners.

Chalk n Talk - Digital Fluency, Digital Technologies and Curriculum.

Manaiakalani - empowering our teachers and learners together. Progression outcomes are a little different to the NZC learning progression outcomes.

What each part of the digital curriculum is broken down into. 

I enjoyed reading and looking through this document and the language they have used. It is a great read and it is explained in student speak. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCSXbLK0LNMJIeJZRu0FKowHI-2FDpw59RcVK0jCYSE/edit

I will look at this site for use in my class:

https://csunplugged.org/en/topics/

Explore: Coding

I have had fun exploring and looking at the different coding websites we can use in our classes. I found that the minecraft coding from Code.org was fun and seems easy to use. I might try this out with my class as I am lucky to have 1 to 1 device in my class. 

Flappy bird was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it. This is a fun game and I think my students would love to explore Code.org.

My favourite so far is using scratch online on my laptop. Here is a screenshot of what I was playing around with. 

I created a video of myself explaining how I made the above picture. 

How to make a smart chip

Hold down the @ then add in a person’s email address details. 

Emma-Lisa Taare

Creating with Code:

It was great to get a deeper understanding of how to work pixel art and coding on google sheets! When I was in lockdown I used one task that was created by Manaiakalani and my students loved it! I then created a second pixel art challenge for my students. 

I can’t wait to show my students how to code by using pixel art! I think I will start with something simple like their name then moving on to objects. 

Below is a screenshot of what I did with my time with Phil.

Then I created a coding picture task. 

CS unplugged at home tasks are great for unplugged tasks. 

To carry the learning from using google sheets to creating their image and creating a moving GIF on https://www.piskelapp.com/

My knowledge from the start of DFI to where I am now has developed a lot! I now feel like I am more confident with google and how to use these tools online with my class. 

I am looking forward to sitting the Exam and would happily do the DFI again!!