Kia Ora
DFI journey continued today. The progress of intelligence in technology is mind blowing. About 35 years ago I visited Xanadu House in Florida, I recall learning that in the future you would just have your dinner cooked for you. I wonder if my understanding as a child got a little off track and maybe it is the fact we can online order our groceries and have them delivered to home. Whatever it was, the house idea was first thought of in the 1950’s and I visited in the 1980’s. I find it interesting how people had these ideas well before they were able to be created and a very long time before they eventually become reality to everyday people. I find it unthinkable the life in the 50’s would come up with some of the things we have everyday access to today. Wow, what next? While on a break today I came across this article on Facebook, great timing for today.
I explored some coding things today, and really liked the Bee Bot idea, I can see how I can use this around Maori Myth’s and legends. I could create pictures to set a scene from a story, and have students programme the Bee Bot to get from one place to another, this would also bee good for them to understand how difficult the journey taken many years ago were, including how navigators may have got of course and had to give things another go.
I tried squeezing pictures into code, wow, so tricky to count and put the right numbers in the right place. The instructions are simple to understand but carrying out the actions are quite hard, I can see how easy but technical coding is. We also tried Guess the sentence, these came from CS UNPLUGGED@home.I like the look of these activities and see how I can use them in the classroom. I could select one, to use, play, teach and work on it everyday for a while, then bring in a new one. I think my class would really like these. This is my attempt at debugging code and making my own code to write my name in sheets.
I am keen to explore Katuku Island, I even sent a link to my classroom TA’s to check out if they got some time.