Week 8 Term 3 2021

Computational Thinking  

I did a relieving lesson on computational thinking with the year 10s and it was embarrassing how terrible I was and how proficient they were.  They were incredibly supportive and helped me out.  

Empowered 

Use the term empowered rather than agency.  5 passes a day. Encourage our students to have threaded conversations.  

Minecraft Aquatic Adventure

Really enjoyed having a go at this. Never played minecraft despite my kids playing it all the time. 

Got a little frustrated with Flappy game!  Bet my kids would be better at it!  Ones at home and at school!

Here's my attempt at scratch. 

It was good to see Khrismira on the class on air using the beebops - good to remember the good ole days when I used a roamer in exactly the same way about 20 years ago!

I also really liked seeing the cubetto. Great resource for new entrants/Year 1. My create session this afternoon was creating an app using MIT with Jacob. I did a really bad job at it, but at least I can see how it works and can imagine the year 10s would fly with this following their coding work with Pip.

Basically I set up 4 screens so that if you pressed good you went to screen 2 to a smiley face. etc etc. So had to upload image and code if you press this button you go to screen 2 etc. Really challenging for this newby coder........ The greatest joy comes from empowering students to be the best they can be, our job is to minimise the hurdles and let them leap over them.