Month: June 2019

This week we delivered a day long DT/HM PD workshop to a group of Auckland AIMS principals. The day consisted of us unpacking the revised Digital Technologies Curriculum document, including how schools can apply for DT/HM PLD. As the day progressed it became clear that not many schools were fully aware that there is PLD funding to help schools implement the revised curriculum and so they were very pleased with the information we were able to share with them. Already four schools from the day have sought additional support from us to guide them through the application process.

During the day we got the principals to do some practical work too. We showed them the learning potential that can be gained from “unplugged” as well as computer based computational thinking activities. In the images below you can see the principals working their way through one of the two “unpugged” activities we provided for them. In the afternoon we had the princpals, coding maths games, flying drones, creating remote controlled cars as well as programming robots.

Last Friday we started a new contract with Glamorgan School as they started their revised Digital Technologies Curriculum journey. We have run many of these Teacher Only Days. Our introductory workshop is heavily hands on and this one was no exception. By the end of the day, many fears that surround the mis-conceptions of computational thinking were allayed. Now the staff at Glamorgan School are now eager to start their digital technologies integration journey. We are looking forward to it too.

It is time for our termly workshop brochure to be distributed to schools. We emailed our brochure last week, but in case you missed it, click on the download link to get your own copy of the brochure. To book a workshop just click on the “Book” hyperlink relevant to the workshop you want to attend. We hope to see you there.