Day 8- Computational Thinking

Today was the 8th day of DFI session I was ready and excited to embrace new learning through out the day. Session was started with Karakia followed by connecting with each other. Everyone shared about what worked from the last week learning and what were  the challenges that we had.  

Empowered:  Dorothy talked about being empowered. How to empower our whanau so that they can thrive in the changing world ? The idea of being empowered is being good in academic and excel. The concept of empowerment by the Manaiakalani program for the learner to provide education, good teaching resources, good health care system, better  schools. Low socio economic families will be disempowered and the choices will be taken away. Household income, occupation by the education they have, household crowding, income support create the range of decile system in the NZ school system. So there is the inequality in the education system that we could see in the decile system.

Education had been the best tool that could empower people to get what ever they want in life. Empowerment of language and complex conversation on different situations made them more confident as learners and creators.. Digital technology is an important tool in helping the people to get empowered. 

Equitable digital operating services: This service is being provided to the Manaiakalani schools with no cost internet and tech support for the unconnected household with children.

No one feels empowered if that person is not connected and main idea was on ubiquitous learning.

Future of tech: Technology has been changing day by day as new inventions and discoveries are keep on coming day by day. Some technical advancements are good and some are bad. Technology has been replacing the people as the robots are performing human tasks so, in the future I feel with the more advancement it will impact the jobs in future and people have to find another ways to be in the competition. 

Digital Fluency and Digital technology: 

Manaiakalani program outreach helping the teachers to be digitally fluent required for effective teaching planning assessments. By attending DFI sessions, I feel that I have become more confident digitally that could help in this digital learning environment. Digitally fluent students became more independent in their learning and they could create rather then only being consumer of the technology.

Digital technology Curriculum I feel that was the vast topic to cover and lots of the things were new to me. We were given time to explore that content for the better understanding.  For computational thinking there were programming fundamentals and elements of programming. 

I learned about different coding platforms like Minecraft, Scratch pad Jr. I have never used those and were completely new to me. We were given time to explore that in our bubble groups which I felt was quite overwhelming for me. 
In the create session I made a whare by using Tinkercad. That was an amazing interactive session in which everyone created their whare. I really enjoyed a lot creating new stuff by using Tinkercad.