I enjoyed Vicki's presentation on Empowerment and found myself making connections between the area in Auckland she was discussing and the community I live in. The greatest joy comes from Empowering students to...be confident in themselves and their own ability.
Jacob's presentation about how technology will continue to develop and where it could go was interesting and could be a great discussion to have with the kids in my class. I'm sure I could create some cool activities relating to this topic using the skills I've acquired during this training.
I enjoyed the coding exploration time and completing the Minecraft puzzles, gave me a little bit of an insight into what some of my students enjoy doing as I've heard them talking about it and haven't really had a clue.
I found the coding activity for Scratch incredibly challenging, it is really not my thing but I did manage to follow the instructions and create something pretty cool. Just goes to show that you don't have to be super into computers to be able to do this stuff.
Click the screen below to start the shape and press spacebar to erase it.
Kia ora Rebekah,
ReplyDeleteYour scratch project looks great! I've found that in Scratch there are so many things you can create that sometimes that unlimited nature of it is overwhelming! But by using a template and starting small I've been able to develop my own skills and then identify ways it could be incorporated in to classroom lessons. I love your statement about empowering students to be confident in themselves - this opens so many opportunities for our students. To have that confidence to step up and give things a go! Ka rawe!
Vicki