Computational thinking

Being digitally literate ….The ability to navigate various digital platforms and to  understand, access and communicate through them.  being comfortable in your own skin when using technology 

Well I am certainly progressing on my journey steadily.  Not always entirely comfortable as things do not always sink in for me without much repetition and practice.  I would however say that I am  certainly am progressing  on an up wards trend. (Great acceleration doing DFI) If I look at where I have come from and how I have adapted to change and new learning and my continued motivation to do so I think I can feel proud and encouraged to continue on this exciting journey. 

Maria Karasse introduced some of the most advanced technologies.  These are incredible yet they reminded me of a time many years ago when  I attended a huge gathering of teachers, here an expert spoke of the many advancing technologies.  These seemed hugely futuristic but I can now look around and say all are just common place in the current technological world in which we live.  So seems scary to think that driverless cars and other amazing technologies are very much waiting in the wings.  With some of theses new technologies and there capabilities they do bring with them some ethical Issues.  It will be interesting to see how these issues are managed and addressed and peoples responses to these.. 

Dorathy

Devices are not just a tool they can provide awesome opportunities and experiences and learning

Its not just a tool.Screen save here

Kerry  Boyde- preece discussed the new digital technologies curriculum.  Being digitally competent is when someone who can decide when and why to use the different digital technologies 

Empowering students with the confidence to share their learning find resources, have a voice and take charge of their progress and learning, Moving toward digitally fluent teachers and students is going to allow this advancement.

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Google classroom g sheets - g form - site challenge  - youtube create your channel mailsend email add task due date 

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Coding exploration was super fun and I can see how engaging that this could be for my learners.  I loved the graduated introduction to coding through the vehicle of mine craft and I have also dabbled with Light bot which is loaded on some of my class ipads already.  I am eager to do more to introduce this learning to my class both plugged in and unplugged through grids, maths using the language prepositional language that will support this. 

The fun continued using scratch junior.  It continues to amaze me the huge amount of different possibilities to create, learn and share using the range of different learning supports out there.  This was a step up from the program scratch junior which I have seen and used a little with a few of my year 1 students.  Again the possibilities and different ways you can use these learning apps is seemingly endless.  I love how there is layers of complexities you can simply explore and create or also create a challenge or task exploring and using the extended range of tools to create then share.

These awesome tools are an invite to any  creative teacher who could utilize the many apps and tools  to inspire learning and development  for the range of learners in their class.