Digital Fluency Session 5 - Connections

Connecting with High Schools other Primary Schools and Intermediates. Connecting School, Teacher and Students through common and shared language. Creating unity and connectivity through this shared language and familiarity to help learning in the future and for the future. Creating links with people in Papakura, around Auckland, New Zealand and the World.

If you don't have connections you are sharing with no one and with connections they want to see what you are doing or there is no connection. To be connected you need to share regularly. Students can see what other students are learning and how they are learning it. Rewinding there own learning and reinforcing it.

OMG - Tech

Gives children the opportunity to create through education provides equity of access of technology and a lot of content supporting learning in English, Te Reo and Pasifika.

Technological Practice - Only do what told like a computer; Chess board move the rover across board (miss obstacles river). Coder is across the room sending messages up down across and number of squares.

Bubble code one person moves at a time; if then if your number is bigger then move to the right sorting numbers may have to move along sequence multiple times. Then always run along an extra time to check sequence is correct.

This sorting code can sort information quicker. Children move at the same time as they 'flop' when they have decided if then and who moves where.

Coding

By understanding how binary code works children can understand how a computer works.

We created a maze in Scratch using code.

 

We pulled apart a CD Rom Drive and found 3 motors 2 DC/Universal motors and a stepper motor. Along with a lazer and mirrors and tiny screws.

3D Fabrication

There are different ways to fabricate objects 3D pens, 3D printer, Router and Lazer Cutter .
Using 3D Pens - We can digitally represent any object. We need children to be inspired to be engineers and creators.

Now just have to decide what to take back to school. 

Looking forward to using Hour of Code in class.