DFI 8 Computational Thinking
I love the strength of the word "empowered", and the reason why Manaiakalani chose it over the word “agency” for those who community many have a negagtive contitation towards the word, is thought provoking.
In communities where they are disempowerment over everyday basics of housing, money, food giving back through empowerment is pivital to their lives.
A stong message behind device use is that its not just a tool but a way of transformig the learning experience and lives of students and whanau.
A video that I viewed through the Manaiankanlai site, showed how a boy through using his device helped his dad get employment, I realised that day that we are giving the gift of Rangatiratanga, so well said by Pat Sneddon in his quote below.
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Following on from this was another statement that resonated with me today , we want our tamariki to be creative directors instead of passive consumers.
Enabling our teachers to be digitially fluent which leads to digital fluent students, is a believe of Manaiakalani which is evident through MKO's strongly, developed digital fluency programme, which they support their MKO schools so generously with, with faciliatiors and teacher release.
Today through exploring The New Digital Technologies Curriculum, the rational behind Digital Computational thinking and Design and developing for educational outcome becme clear when its set in the framework above.
The links and resoucered to gain further understanding I found valuable were
https://rarangamatihiko.com/ and https://kiatakatu.ac.nz/
 
I will be unpacking these with my staff when things return to the new normal!
The alignment with the cybersmart curriculum will show the staff that it's not another add on but one they have already being implementing , knowing this connection will increase their awareness and need of this aspect of the technology curriculum.
Lastly today I dabbled with Mindcraft, a first for me! I can see the appealing hook of some of the coding apps but I also realised that you do not necessarily need to use a device to start computational thinking, so lets start!
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Hi Deb- It has been great to meet you on our small group sessions with Mark. I quite liked the site Unplugged which had activities you could do with a Junior class without a device. It identified that structured steps, repeated steps and directional activities is part of computational thinking. Best of luck for Thursday. :)
ReplyDeleteKia ora Deb,
ReplyDeleteThe Pat Sneddon quote that you included really resonated with me too - what a powerful statement! This was a very thought provoking session and I really enjoyed unpacking the word empowerment. I too, will definitely be spending some time unpacking the resources you have linked above.
Have a lovely week,
Katie.