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DFI #8 coding and computational thinking

This lesson day was interesting and fun for a couple of reasons.

Coding:

It was cool, simple (for someone like me who’s skills are at the beginning of his digital journey outside of emails, reports, youtube and instagram hehe) and broken down via clips and videos that describes how coding works, what the purpose of it is and how you can use it in activities and class.

I had fun with the alphabet mat and can see how students would get into it as they would thinking it was a game rather than actual work. The minecraft coding game would definitely hook my students as they’re fans of video games so I can see them gravitating towards that particular activity. But the most fun I think I had was with code. In code your basically creating a routine dance from the ground up, adding characters, their types of dance, the stage and background even down to the music, this is another thing I think my students would get into (probably need headphones though especially with 23 of them in the 1 class.)

Overall, I can definitely see the relevance of coding and how it goes hand in hand with chromebooks, especially if in the future one of my tauira ends up wanting to become a computer tech of sorts.

 

Computational thinking:

As mentioned, and obviously the reason I did this course, this is the beginning of my online journey using sites more often and having chromebooks as well as being 1 to 1 in class. So this got me thinking and noticing a lot of different things that you could do with students, not just the ‘add slides’ or ‘make a presentation’ or even just using docs. This has got me thinking about how to create or link ideas to my students, sharing what I think could benefit them overall as well as creating our own unique class site, one that even they would be proud of.

 

I have the tabs still up on my laptop even as I type this blog up just so I can remind myself of what I can do with my tauira or some of things I want to do with them and I can’t wait to explore with them.

DFI #7 devices

Todays lesson was fun, in a matter of speaking.

I got to play around with the chromebooks that my students get to use in class.

I want to say this, my sausage fingers didn’t help me whatsoever, however the fact there was a presentation on how to use certain aspects of the device was really fun and innovative and it was very very helpful. I can’t wait to show my students what I do know or to show them what is possible and so on. It also opened my eyes to what they have readily available to them, seeing why we have such things as kawa of care and being cybersmart.

It also opened my eyes to see what the real differences are to ‘our’ work laptops too, although the students are limited by our laptops standards, I can see how using chromes will help them prepare for the future, even today.

DFI day 6

Today we went over our own class sites so heres the breakdown of how that went:

We went over our own class sites and were adding to them, I myself am at an early stage of using chromebooks in class, so this was a cool lesson in which I got to work a little more on my class site.

Class site:

There is still so many things that im learning about class sites, I have done them before but now that im a senior teacher the use of a class site and chromebooks is more prominent over ipads and using devices sometimes.

*I was a junior teacher up until recently so the devices used in class was mainly Ipads.

There are still little things I need to go over so im more confident in creating or adding to my class site but I am having fun for the most part.

 

Feedback:

I didn’t mind the feedback from my core group today, in fact it was really welcomed. I was nervous about it but I was willing to put it out there to get feedback and it was awesome. I also got some tips from todays lesson about my class site too eg the 3 click tip, the accessibility for students as well as colours and how they capture people into exploring the class site. I look forward to further play around with the things we can do on the class site.