Digital Technology Toolkit Term 3, 2019

Digital toolkit in term 3 based around are you digital ready for 2020?
An overview with some great slides. The vocabulary will need breaking down for us - we are doing a lot of these skills - our next step is to actually deliberately use the vocabulary within each progress outcome.

Summary as follows:

Students are no longer consumers
Global challenges are the future
Computational thinking focus
We have focused on digital fluency in the past
Designing and developing

Computational thinking and progress outcomes
PO 1 possible without devices - vocabulary to unpack but we do a lot of this daily

PO2 simple programs and outputs. Putting things in order. Age appropriate programming. Scratch junior
Level 3

PO3 decompose problems into step by step, predict what happens, de bug if needed
Scratch Ed blogs hour of code
Expect that devices used

4 stages of computational thinking
Decomposition - change tyre, dancing etc. granulated instructions
Pattern recognition - changing tyre eg similarities with how you notice nuts same, you repeat to take off
Abstraction - ignore stuff that is unnecessary eg sewing
Algorithm design - step by step strategy for solving problems

Touched on cyber safety being such an important aspect of the Digital Technology Curriculum

PO3 is pitched at year 9/10
PO2 is pitched at year 7/8

Resources
Hour of Code
TKI
Digital ignition

Slide presentation

Tamaki Visit

Week 4, Term 3, 2019

We welcomed the Tamaki Principals/Manaiakalani team to PCS this week with a whakatau in the church.  Our senior student ambassadors then showed them through the classrooms to view the learning.  The summary from them was:

Wow!!! The feedback we got was outstanding!! What a team we have. You are doing a fabulous job. Our students are simply outstanding and your hard work is well and truly acknowledged!!! Congratulations! This is the post on Facebook. 

Today we welcomed Principals from Tamaki in Auckland to our space. Our seniors were fabulous ambassadors for our school. The whakatau included some impressive waiata too! Highlights they mentioned:

- quality teaching and learning 

- depth of learning and vocabulary in the play based learning

- quality of learning in STEM and the student blogs

- contracts covering a range of curriculum areas

- mahi tahi covering co-operation, communication, collaboration and creativity 

- all students were engaged and could talk about their learning 

- tuakana teina in action

So proud of our school staff and students!!! 

What a great chance to celebrate with the staff and build on our learning with our focus on critical thinking school wide.