Digital Technologies – Teacher Learning

Today, at our pupil free day, our staff worked together for two sessions to evolve our learning in terms of the Digital Technologies Curriculum.     Documents we considered included:

  • a hexagonal sheet (to encourage the seeking of alignment between DigiTech and other areas of the curriculum)
  • ACARA documentation including the Sequence of Content and the Band Descriptions and Elaborations
  • Examples of current assessment tasks from other curriculum areas
  • school created document identifying appropriate tools
  • cluster created document identifying tasks for possible assessment opportunities and support opportunities

We discussed the notion of unplugged and plugged activities and Mr Bayliss took the Yr 3-6 teachers through a ‘Sorting Network’ activity designed to encourage understanding of the way computers sort through information.

Mrs O’Connor worked with the teachers from the younger year levels to look at the unplugged activity of using a child sized bee bot grid to encourage computational thinking for younger students.

We then  discussed the visual programming component of the Digital Technologies Curriculum and did some planning for 2017 in terms of implementation and assessment.