DIgital Technologies

Australian Curriculum: TechnologiesTuesday, 1 October 13

Dr Jason Zagamijason.zagami.info

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LecturerGriffith University

School of Education and Professional StudiesGold Coast

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ADEApple Distinguished Educator

Google Certified Teacher

Australian HP Innovations In Education MentorTuesday, 1 October 13

Queensland Society for Information Technology in EducationImmediate Past President

Australian Council for Computers in Education

EditorAustralian Educational Computing

Australian College of Educators

(Gold Coast Region) President

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Curriculum DevelopmentTuesday, 1 October 13

Developmental Curriculum

Foundation Year 10

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TechnologiesLearning Area

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Indicative Timings

F-2 10 Hours

3-4 20 Hours

5-6 30 Hours

7-10 40 HoursTuesday, 1 October 13

UK dis-application

ICT as a subject name carries negative connotations of a dated and unchallenging curriculum that does not serve the needs and ambitions of pupils. Changing the subject name of ICT to computing will not only improve the status of the subject but also more accurately reflect the breadth of content included in the proposed new programmes of study

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I remember being at school and using early computers. Yes, I was in computer club - and I loved it. I think we’ve lost some of that sense of joy and excitement in computing, and have just become focused on just training kids to use Windows. We want to bring some of that excitement back.

September 2013

Elizabeth TrussParliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare

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Coding - one of the essential skills of the 21st century - will now start at age 5. We are aiming to develop one of the most rigorous computing curricula in the world, where pupils will learn to handle detailed, abstract computing processes and over-11s will learn 2 programming languages (one of which must be textual).

September 2013

Elizabeth TrussParliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare

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Resources?

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Code Academy

Turtle Logo

Construct 2Tuesday, 1 October 13

Tynker

Komodo

Alice

Code MonsterTuesday, 1 October 13

Snap

Scratch

Scratch Junior

MIT App InventorTuesday, 1 October 13

Daisy the Dinosaur

Hopscotch

BeeBot

SpheroTuesday, 1 October 13

Raspberry PiServers

MinecraftMinecraft Pi

RaspberryJuiceMinecraft Pi API

Blockly MinecraftMinecraft Python Script

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Arduino

Shrimp

CodeBender

Coderfor Raspberry Pi

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Romotive

Mindstorms

Lollybot

AiboTuesday, 1 October 13

MaKey MaKey

Code Spell

Cubelets

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MaKey MaKey

ProBots/BeeBots

Scratch

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CoderDojo BrisbaneKids learning to Code

CodeHeroes BrisbaneMobile Software Developers

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CS Unplugged

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Project Based Learning

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Information Systems?

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SQL Fiddle

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Systems Thinking

Design Thinking

Computational Thinking

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Computational Thinking

"Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everyone, not just

for computer scientists. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add

computational thinking to every child’s analytical ability."

Jannette Wing

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Computational Thinking Skills

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Analysis - the process of breaking the complex into smaller parts to gain

a better understanding of it.

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Decomposition

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Pattern recognition

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Pattern generalisation and abstraction

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Algorithm Design

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Computational Fairy TalesThe Ant and the Grasshopper: A Fable of Algorithms (Algorithms)

Bullies, Bubble Sort, and Soccer Tickets (Bubble Sort)

Hunting Dragons with Binary Search (Binary Search)

Binary Searching for Cinderella (Binary Search)

Goldilocks and the Two Boolean Bears (Boolean)

The Tortoise, the Hare, and 50000 Ants (Parallel Algorithms)Tuesday, 1 October 13

Computational Fairy TalesThe ant paused for a moment while he thought. "It is the algorithm

that we use," he finally replied.

"Algorithm?" asked the grasshopper.

"A set of steps or instructions for accomplishing a task," explained the ant. "Like when a carpenter builds a chair, he uses an algorithm

that includes measuring, cutting, smoothing, and hammering."

"What task does your algorithm solve?" asked the grasshopper. "Does it solve the problem of having too much time during the

summer?" He chuckled out loud at his own joke.Tuesday, 1 October 13

Senior Computing?Tuesday, 1 October 13

Is computer education working?Tuesday, 1 October 13

Griffith University

Dr Jason Zagami

www.zagami.info

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