Deep Dive
Today’s deep dive really triggered my thinking about where technology is heading and how far we come in the past 10 years. It is so important that we as kaiako are constantly growing our understanding of current technology and implementing this in our practices. This insures that tamariki are exposed to the changes and are learning about how to incorporate it into everyday life by understanding the functionalities.
Exploring
Throughout the day we explored many different avenues for teaching Computational Thinking. Hello Ruby was one that really stood out for me. I will be investigating this more over the school holidays and hopefully using it in the new school year. Hello Ruby a resource where tamariki learn about computers, technology and programming. There are three books and online there are videos and resources.
Another great platform is Raranga Matahiko. There are some great videos on this site that can be included in kaupapa as a rewindable learn task. I will also be looking deeper into this over the holidays.
Create
Our create task today was to code a waka in Scratch and create a background for the waka. By clicking on the parts of the waka you will hear the ingoa of that specific part. The background was created in GoogleDraw by using shapes and clipart from GreenGrubsGarden.
This method of Scratch will be a great way for tamariki to show what they know in literacy by segmenting and blending sprites.
Scratch