Day 8 - Computational Thinking
Connecting with Manaiakalani
The focus today is
Empowerment. My takeaway from today's presentation is altering the
language often used for choice, the word being ‘agency’. Today highlighted that the word agency often
has a negative connotation associated with it, it can have an emotional
link and its meaning is often not understood. We often link the word agency
with State agencies such as the Ministry of Social Development and Ministry of
Justice. By replacing the word agency and using the language empowered it is more proactive and understood.
Deep Dive
The Future of Technology
The session started with a cartoon from my childhood that may or may not be familiar to you the reader.
This cartoon was
made in the 1960s and is quite interesting to watch the perceived views of what
they thought their future would look like.
I can recall the days of connecting with my family in the UK by sitting around a tape deck and recording on a tape cassette! And now……we have Zoom. I can talk to my family in real time – how amazing! I wonder what the technology is going to be
like when my nephews and niece are Grandparents. My mind boggles.
As a teacher I must
think about what our future workforce and societies are potentially going to
look like, to prepare our learners for the unknown. I feel my key role as an educator within technology, is to
teach how to be ethical in our digital world. To always be kind and demonstrate
integrity when communicating in our digital world.
Chalk n' Talk
Digital Technologies Curriculum
The technology
curriculum allows learners to feel at home in the digital world. The future workforce will be grown by providing
them broad knowledge, first-hand practice, and a temperament to represent our
communities, cultures, and ethnicities within the digital world.
Explore
I enjoyed the
opportunity to explore the various digital resources available for coding. There are many great resources available to
support my digital technology curriculum. Having the opportunity to view what is available
and to try other coding programmes was great.
Create
I chose to attempt
to create a whare utilising Tinkercad. I
found manipulating the boxes frustrating but with more practise I am sure I
will get better. Tinkercad provides a
great learning platform for geometry, manipulating shapes and creating 3D
design.
My creation. I have inserted as an image and I will update with an embedded link to show the 3D creation from all angles.
