Over the year I have begun to introduce coding via a seniors code club and a middle syndicate code club, putting into practice what I learnt in 2016 and at the 2017 Google Summit.
Seniors experienced CS First and Scratch which they enjoyed as were able to direct their learning at their own pace.
Middle school has experienced an Hour of Code course and have enjoyed the block coding that this provides.
After attending the CORE Digi Roadshow, I'd now like to try Code Avengers which is NZ Curriculum aligned and can be used whole school from juniors to seniors. I will trial this in my syndicate in term 4 to see if it is worth paying for when the new DT curriculum is introduced in 2018.
CS Unplugged for Computer Science is also a valuable resource for teaching Binary Numbers, Data Representation, Networking etc.
I now have to put together an ICT proposal for greater software and hardware. Initial thoughts are:
1. Schoolwide Seesaw Plus - alternative to Blogger which the Senior School is failing to engage with.
2. Coding/Robotics Kit - range of robots in a kit that can be rotated School-wide (teachers learning alongside the children). Whanau Syndicate is trialling Edisons for our Term 4 inquiry (very exciting)!
3. Coding - Code Avengers; Hour of Code; Scratch etc? What is best school-wide for 2018?
4. iPads - what do we need? So many are old and cannot update apps etc. Great for junior coding.
5. Chromebooks - Middle Syndicate - 10 more (increase ratio to 1:2), so total of 30. Senior Syndicate? Will any more be utilised?
Here are my intial thoughts on robots hardware suitability for our school:
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