Digital Fluency Intensive Session 7

Session 7 is...
Looking at the Computational Thinking Curriculum and all it entails with Digital Technologies in the future was pretty mind blowing. Looking at the breakthrough technologies scary, exciting, thought provoking. There were so many things touched on and to explore at a later date it was hard to keep up and became overwhelming. (This is how kids must feel sometimes!!) Overall I get that this is the future for our tamariki and even if I don't get it, I need to work out how to feed it in to their learning so will go away and relook at items on different days.
I am putting the links to the slideshows as so many notes on them.
Empowerment.

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"A computer is NOT just a tool" was a change in conversation from what I have heard in the past. The reasons are tenfold but comes down to empowerment that the access of being online gives families and people, and I get that totally. I can also understand how advantaged children with 32million words are
at an advantage when turning 5 as see the impact the lack of conversation has on the students through our school.

Look at Later
Nigel Latta videos are about empowerment in Manaiakalani are attached and will be interesting to watch.
32 million words - researchers - clothes - middle class look up https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/tyc/feb2014/the-word-gap

  On the other side of this access, one of the Discussion points first up, was talking about and considering the access students have to so much online. Looking at ages for social media - especially youtube accounts. In NZ it is 18years as need to be able to stand up in court and answer to the actions they take. Going back to our Year 5/6 classes we will create new work in Cybersmart covering these again and then Blog  about it over the next couple of weeks, then have the students resend their blog link to parents so it is something they see too hopefully. A way of connecting to the community but possibly look at consultation with community in other ways too.

Sort Me 

Digital Technologies Curriculum - Creating with technologies.
Really enjoyed the Sort Me activity that showed algorithm understanding and debugging examples. Will use this template (like picture) in Maths warmups as well. If want it bigger can go to 10 people 5 rows of full 5 squares, then numbering off. Looking at Values and Morals was really interesting and again thought provoking. The programming of self driving cars - biased as have the values of the programmers in them. Who are they? Do we align with their values and morals?   The cars make decisions on what they have been programmed for.  This wasn't even something I had considered.

Our ideas on our values and morals and the values employers want. 

These are notes of things I need to follow up on!!!
Trailblazers Workshop Website things to look at....
Charity to empower children to use technology. Teaches children to innovate.  https://omgtech.co.nz/
Minority Report Author. Phillip K. Dick Wrote science fiction  that has come about.
10 breakthrough technologies - Bill Gates - detail in Trailblazer website
Game Changers Doc - is it bullshit?  sensationalised or factual? Vegan argument.  Netflix
Paint me a picture - makey makey with conductive paint - lesson plan on site.
Scratch - create a teacher page as can enter class - check it out as it is so useful to teach so many parts of computational thinking would good to set up whole school - kids have scratch login.
Hour of Code  also important for teaching Computational thinking.