Should I Start Blogging Again? A Note From Someone Who Stopped for a Decade I used to write here. For years, this place was a small, steady habit: a thought, a photo, a link, a place to capture ideas even if I never posted them, a sentence that wanted to exist in public. Then life… Continue reading Reviving Your Blog: A Journey After a Decade
I started this blog years ago because I liked the idea of leaving small traces of thought in the world. Life pulled me away, and for more than a decade this page sat quiet—an archive of who I was then. Well now I’m back because I miss the slow, deliberate act of writing. The internet… Continue reading Welcome back: a journey into thoughtful writing
Makey Makey is a physical computing keyboard replacement board. Using simple circuits students learn about integrating digital systems and the design process. By modelling and applying logical processes they can interact with the computer system as well as making posters or interactive objects, and code them using online systems such as scratch.mit.edu. MakeyMakey http://makeymakey.com (Website) MakeyMakey… Continue reading MakeyMakey Resources
A list of online (mostly free) publications that support DT & HM (Computational Thinking and Design and Development of Digital Outcomes) Computational Thinking Beanz Magazine: a bi-monthly online and print magazine about learning to code, computer science, and how we use technology in our daily lives. Computer Science for Fun magazine concentrates on the fun side… Continue reading Computational Thinking Magazines
Lots of hard work put in by lots of great people. DTTA recognized by industry in winning the Excellence in Education award at ITx2018 (https://itx.nz). Great to see DTTA recognized by industry in winning the excellence in education award pic.twitter.com/cReaYzNDeo (video) — DTTA (@dttanz) July 12, 2018
This wasn’t planned and I had no idea I’d be doing this only last week… however, looking forward to participating with Helen Cooper, @jayeriki @FionaGrant “On the Sofa” for Digital Technology | Hangarau Matahiko session, Breakout 4 Thursday #ulearn17 https://e.core-ed.org/breakouts/ulearn17/view#/breakouts/421/ulearn17/view/1135
Māori language week is about getting all of us to use more te reo Māori on a daily basis. Twitter #edchatNZ has challenged us all to level up our te reo. What is involved? Sign up here for the #edchatNZ te reo Māori challenge. Collect evidence of your progress. (You can do this in a… Continue reading The #edchatNZ te reo Māori challenge
This has been happening for a year or two in the Digital Technology Externals, but looks like it will roll-out across all Learning areas of the NZC for the 2107 NCEA. NCEA assessment documentation warned Digital Technologies teachers in 2016 that externally assessed reports must be in a student’s own words and that suspicion of… Continue reading NCEA markers on lookout for memorised or plagiarised answers in 2017 school exams
With under two weeks to go until the closing of the Ministry of Education consultation on the Digital Technology Curriculum draft I thought I’d post this plea for anyone interested to make your voice heard. Here you will find links to: the Consultation Presentation from Tim Bell and Hinerangi Edwards (from the Rotorua meeting), three… Continue reading Digital Technology Consultation
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