Ubiquitous learning
This week started off with a facilitation day at Bay of Islands College, followed by a staff meeting I ran on Manaiakalani’s Learn aspect. This term, we were looking at Ubiquitous learning and...
Category: Registered Teaching Criteria
All tags that fall under this category represent the requirements of the New Zealand Teaching Registration Criteria.
Python Data Types
The next chunk of information I want to understand is Python Data Types and the differences between things like sequence types i.e lists, tuples and range. I am getting different outputs based on the...
Future proofing computational know how
Reading this article online today “Why Python is not the programming language of the future” by Rhea Moutafis suggested new programming language was being developed that would supersede it. Programmes like Rust, Go and...
Programming workshop
I’ve just attended Canterbury University’s three day workshop ‘Learn Programming with the Department of Fun”. What a way to start a new decade! Over 40 teachers, primary and secondary attended from around the country. ...
Managing your online workflow
Today we looked at a variety of ways to manage your workflow online. I learned a few more tricks for gmail which I’m thrilled about. One of those is the add ons which enable...
Arduino – an introduction to robotics
Intention: I would like to give students the opportunity to learn about Robotics. This is a fairly new area for me so to upskill I want to attend some professional development with MindLab in...
Student centred learning – putting it into action
I found this post from Richard Well’s really good, student centred learning part 2.He’s got a lot of interesting information about how to make the shift from a traditional teacher led class to a...
Developing senior internal assessments
Intention: In previous years, assessments had often been stand alone tasks which often seemed devoid of context or relative to students’ interests. In discussion with a Digital Technology teacher at Tikipunga, Excellere College and...
Personalising student’s learning
My subject goals for Digital Technology in 2017 are to give students more choice and to work towards personalising their learning to suit their interests and ability. Develop senior DTY assessments Integrate a Robotics...
Building literacy
Today at our staff meeting colleagues shared teaching practices they are using in their classes to help students improve their literacy. One teacher gave an example of a group task. Students within the group...
