31st March DFI Blog

 DFI Day 8: Computational Thinking

These are the things I learned from today's DFI:

1. Empowered

Need to equip our next generation with the skills to both compete and succeed in a digital world. Through skills, through a safe environment: consistency and stability of the learning environment (in a child's sometimes very inconsistent life), equitable outcomes and access to technology with the goal of providing learners ownership/control of their education. 

2. DTG curriculum / computational thinking

Digital fluency is the capability to use our own digital technologies in the world we live in. Yet, the value is when we move beyond being a digital consumer to becoming a digital innovator. The DTG curriculum allows learners to develop the computational/algorithmic thinking that most computer operating systems have as their base: an ordered step-by-step set of instructions that accurately describe a process, action or event. 

3. Coding

Examples in Mathematics 

Robo-Compass

Maths Puzzle

Line fitting

Linear Lines

Parabola

Mihi

I created my mihi through gamefroot.com.

Hamish Wood's Mihi

4. A bit of fun

Created by Teachers and Students - both learners while doing this!