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Tag: Digital Technologies
More resources associated with supporting schools with Online Learning.
If I were teaching computer science, I’d start with a working piece of software, probably an HTTP server, and give the students a series of assignments.
This website is a reminder of the big data structures that are at play within the world. It makes me wonder what may exist either beyond or outside of these numbers?
Getting Unstuck is a project of the Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
This looks like an interesting opportunity
With rapid moves towards different models of learning thanks to COVID19 restrictions, lots of people are looking closely at staff development for digital skills. Chris challenges to notion that developing digital practice is all about training. He offers a model for improving your chances of success in supporting the development of new capabilities.
Chris Thomson reflects on the challenges put forward by the requirements of social distancing and questions whether ‘training’ is always the answer. Talking about Cathy Moore’s idea of Action Mapping. What is different about this process is that rather than exploring what needs to change, it focuses on why the current practice is not happening and works from there.
Action mapping says to flip that on its head. Instead, ask “why aren’t they doing it already?”
This is an interesting read alongside David Culberhouse’s discussion of learning/unlearning, as well as Tom Barrett’s exploration of compression innovation.
via Doug Belshaw
I was thinking about this in regards to Drama, PE, Music, Art, they would all be sharing equipment?
You might need to go unplugged Rick?
an authorA big collection of engineering quotes I like, collected over many years. Also see engineering lessons.
You can find all of the resources here: bit.ly/CSER-Remote-Support
There is no real solution — the algorithmic genie is long gone from its bottle. But we can be aware, and make some decisions about how what information we share and how we are being manipulated by technology.
What did I get in return for my one-hour investment? I reduced email spam from roughly sixty daily messages to two. I see very few pop-up ads, and my browser searches are more neutral. I have confidence that most of my web activity isn’t being tracked, although that’s difficult to fully quantify.
Another great reflection Bob on the importance of reviewing our settings regularly. Another interesting post you might want to check out is Doug Belshaw’s discussion of our digital estate.
When the hype around 3D printing was at its peak, it was confidently predicted that every household would soon have a personal printer – ala the home-computing revolution.
That’s not the way it turned out. As per the Gartner Hype Cycle, expectations plummeted into what they term the “trough of disillusionment”.
But 3D printing has now emerged from the trough and it’s slowly making its way toward the verdant “plateau of productivity”.
An interesting update on the state of 3D printing. Where it is at and not at.
Let’s bust some myths about Girls in STEM. The GiST provides resources to inspire and inform girls, schools and families in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Explore activities, resources, case studies, lessons, study pathways and careers.
This is a great example of procedure.
Luckily for computer enthusiasts, constraint can at times lead to immense creativity. And so the most influential operating system ever written was not funded by venture capitalists, and the people who wrote it didn’t become billionaires because of it. Unix came about because Bell Labs hired smart people and gave them the freedom to amuse themselves, trusting that their projects would be useful more often than not. Before Unix, researchers at Bell Labs had already invented the transistor and the laser, as well as any number of innovations in computer graphics, speech synthesis, and speech recognition.
These two posters provide visual representations and examples of the components of the Digital Technologies Curriculum and elements of ICT.
The A3-sized poster can be downloaded, printed and added to student workbooks or similar.
A collection of resources associated with the Digital Technologies Curriculum, including several infographics and videos.
An interesting provocation for looking at algorithms and abstraction in Digital Technologies curriculum.
If you’re building complex formulas, then I advocate following a one-action-per-step approach.
What I mean by this is that you build your formulas in a series of steps, and only make one change with each step.
The Onion Method is a framework by which to approach hard formulas, and consists of these three elements:
- Put each new step of the formula in a new cell
- Label each step with a simple “Step 1”, “Step 2”, etc. in adjacent cells
- Change the background color of each formula cell, so they can be easily found
I love the way you breakdown complex examples using the onion method through all your courses.