Eighth Day of DFI- Computational Thinking

 Today was the last session of my DFI course which was on Computational Thinking. I had a great experience of technology today where I could learn about coding which I have never done before.

As usual, today's session also started by Connecting with Manaiakalani "Empowered" session- empowering teachers and learners. This was a story from Tamaki. It is very difficult to meet up with daily requirements or feel empowered when your annual income is very low in the expensive city like Auckland. Many families manage to live in one room during winter without any social distancing even when someone is suffering from viruses or bugs because they cannot affort to run the heat pump. It is also found by the researchers that the academic performance of the children in low decile school is almost half a life behind their affluent peers. The Manaiakalanin Program, Manaiakalanini Partners and Supporters, the Manaiakalani Education Trust are all committed to support the learning communities to become empowered. We can actively support Equity and Access and remove barriers to empower people.

The greatest joy comes from EMPOWERING students to discover their courage and teach them to overcome any fear in their life

The next session was on introduction to the future of technology and what it means for our tamariki. It was very interesting to see how can our future job places, communities, and societies look like.

It is important to prepare students for jobs that don't currently exist. We should prepare students for a constantly changing future, the need to upskill and become lifelong learners.

Then we had an introduction to Computational Thinking- Digital Technologies Curriculum to make students know how technology works and how they can use it to solve problems. The digitally capable person can create their own digital technologies solution.

The Manaiakalani Program outreach to digitally fluent teachers and students. Teachers are supported to acquire digital fluency required for effective teaching, planning, assessment and professional learning to deliver the curriculum in a digital learning environment. It is important that students have opportunities to be innovative designers and creators of digital solutions.

Then in the explore session of coding I came across different coding programmes and games created by Minecraft, Scratch and others and later for which we had a create session on developing our coding for learning. I created a coding with Scratch and below is my created coding.