Kahoot is a great way to upskill us all and to put in competition and challenge to drive our deep dive into the curriculum.
New Zealand Technology Curriculum
A supportive site ... code.org is a site to promote the coding concept without the involvement of technology. (CODING UNPLUGGED)
Prototypes ... children developing their own. The steps before this is to learn to create by following a step of instructions. In our New Entrant room we have a variety of resources that can teach and reinforce these skills. Through google we can access Duplo Pictures for the children to copy.
A key concept for the early years in Technology is learning and understanding the language, the concepts.
A great watch for why we are developing and implementing the Technology curriculum is Rethinking Learning: The 21st Century Learner.
Computational thinking is in our everyday lives and already a part of our classroom. the shift will be to make the links for the children when they are thinking in a computational way. Teaching and using the language.
It is now back to the classroom to implement what I have learnt today.
The class loved the added challenge of creating from a model! There was lots of rewinding and having another go ... looking closely at the plan and then recreating the model was a real skill that took time and trial.
