DFI Session 7 Computational Thinking 11.06.19

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Digital fluency intensive is about empowering teachers and learners

We want to see this move completely transforming the lives of family/whanau

Nigel Latta concludes: The way we are using tech is changing the lives of communities.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/what-next/episodes/s2-e3

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Students with chromebook at home- teaching students about Internet online shopping - parent access to a debit card- NO MORE being ripped off by those awful trucks - wow, this is awesome!

Decile 1 students have heard 32 million less words than a decile 10 child - before they arrive at school. Terrible statistic.

1/3 is the typical turnover of children in any particular year at a decile 1 school - not transients - this is dis-empowerment - you have to move, etc

5 plus a day

Conversing in a ping pong style 5 backwards and forwards. Set up and scaffold opportunities to learn and keep conversations going. New Entrant teachers at decile one schools are doing this.

Blogging - continuing the conversations - share on the blog is the start of new learning. Teachers teaching the back and forth - with commenting on posts - keep the conversation going. Try to get a 5 plus going in a threaded conversation on a blog.

Write a reply just like an old style letter. Accelerate literacy skills by focus on communicating in blog commenting

When learning is visible our young people are more likely to engage in and actively pursue learning that is authentic.

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Change in Mind-Set - sharing teacher planning. 

Trailblazers presentation

Voluntarily about to launch - schools content providers and corporate volunteers

SO semi autonomous flying cars are here in NZ but do we know what that means?

For years, experts have warned against the unanticipated effects of general artificial intelligence (AI) on society. Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2029 intelligent machines will be able to outsmart human beings. Stephen Hawking argues that “once humans develop full AI, it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate”. Elon Musk warns that AI may constitute a “fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization”.*

Machines cannot be assumed to be inherently capable of behaving morally. Humans must teach them what morality is, how it can be measured and optimised.

But in real-life situations, optimization problems are complex. For example, how do you teach a machine to algorithmically maximise fairness or to overcome racial and gender biases in its training data? A machine cannot be taught what is fair unless the engineers designing the AI system have a precise conception of what fairness is.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

I have begun to learn about the Digital technologies curriculum, which is great as implementation is next year. 

I am looking forward to using Mine craft adventurer and scratch with my learners.

The most useful thing that will help is learning about all these new things to help me to implement the new curriculum from next year. 

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

Showing and discussing chromebook damage photos. Des and Troy - together we are destroy wrap around the chromebooks for protection.

First blog post - an introduction about self- photo, some facts..

EVIDENCE states students who make 2 plus blog posts a week go up 

Minecraft hour of code! I am going to introduce this. 

Tips for beginning with Chrome books- thank you Mark for sharing this with me, this will be very useful.

Binary numbers... I had literally no idea, thanks to Sharon, Mark and Emily for breaking this down for me- oh and to Sharon's tic tacs! I still need a lot of work on this one.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Playing with Hour of code or Scratch could make for a fun Saturday evening - but too be honest I'd prefer time off my computer in my personal down time or having a good sleep.