digital technologies: what now?
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Digital Technologies: What now? Presentation by Dr Jason Zagami to the Queensland Studies Authority: Australian Curriculum conference on 22 March 2014 in Brisbane, QLD.TRANSCRIPT
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Digital Technologies
Australian Curriculum: Technologies
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LecturerGriffith University
School of Education and Professional StudiesGold Coast
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Teaching
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Research
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Service
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Curriculum Development
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Melbourne Declaration
2008
on Educational Goals for Young Australians
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Melbourne Declaration
Information and Communication Technology and Design and
Technology
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Technologies Learning Area
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Engineering a Software Engineering
Mathematics a Computer Science
Business a Information Systems
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Engineering a Software Engineering
Mathematics a Computer Science
Business /Graphics a ICT
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Engineering a Software Engineering
Mathematics a Computer Science
Business /Graphics a ICT
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Engineering a Software Engineering
Mathematics a Computer Science
Business /Graphics a ICT
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Software Engineering
Digital Technologies a Computer Science
ICT General Capability a ICT
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UK dis-application !
ICT as a subject name carries negative connotations of a dated and unchallenging curriculum that does not serve the needs and ambitions of pupils. Changing the subject name of ICT to computing will not only improve the status of the subject but also more accurately reflect the breadth of content included in the proposed new programmes of study
Education secretary Michael Gove MP !
January 2012
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I remember being at school and using early computers. Yes, I was in computer club - and I loved it. I think we’ve lost some of that sense of joy and excitement in computing, and have just become focused on just training kids to use Windows. We want to bring some of that excitement back.
September 2013 !Elizabeth Truss Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare
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Coding - one of the essential skills of the 21st century - will now start at age 5. We are aiming to develop one of the most rigorous computing curricula in the world, where pupils will learn to handle detailed, abstract computing processes and over-11s will learn 2 programming languages (one of which must be textual).
September 2013 !Elizabeth Truss Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education and Childcare
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Developmental Curriculum
Foundation Year 10
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Processes and production skills
Collecting, managing and analysing data / Creating digital solutions by:
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defining designing
implementing evaluating
collaborating and managing
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Knowledge and understanding
Digital systems the components of digital systems:
hardware, software and networks and their use Representation of data
how data are represented and structured symbolically
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Abstraction !
Data Collection, Data Representation and Data Interpretation
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Specification, Algorithms and Implementation !
Digital Systems !
Interactions and Impacts
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Abstractionwhich underpins all content, particularly the content descriptions relating to the concepts
of data representation and specification, algorithms and implementation
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Computational Thinking
which underpins all content, particularly the content descriptions relating to the concepts
of data representation and specification, algorithms and implementation
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Data: Collection, Representation and
InterpretationData collection (properties, sources and collection of data), data representation
(symbolism and separation) and data interpretation (patterns and contexts)
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Information Systems
Data collection (properties, sources and collection of data), data representation
(symbolism and separation) and data interpretation (patterns and contexts)
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Specification, Algorithms and
ImplementationSpecification (descriptions and techniques),
algorithms (following and describing) and implementation (translating and
programming)
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Software Development
Specification (descriptions and techniques), algorithms (following and describing) and
implementation (translating and programming)
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Digital Systems
Digital systems (hardware, software, and networks and the internet)
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Computer Systems
Digital systems (hardware, software, and networks and the internet)
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Interactions and Impacts
Interactions (people and digital systems, data and processes) and impacts (sustainability
and empowerment).
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Human Computer Interactions
Interactions (people and digital systems, data and processes) and impacts (sustainability
and empowerment).
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Multimedia?
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Indicative Timings
F-2 10 Hours
3-4 20 Hours
5-6 30 Hours
7-10 40 Hours
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Resources?
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Blockly
Scratch
Scratch Junior
MIT App Inventor
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Daisy the Dinosaur
Hopscotch
BeeBots
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Romotive
Mindstorms
Lollybot
Sphero
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Arduino
Shrimp
Raspberry Pi
MaKey MaKey
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CS Unplugged
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Computational Fairy Tales The Ant and the Grasshopper: A Fable of Algorithms (Algorithms)
!Bullies, Bubble Sort, and Soccer Tickets (Bubble Sort)
!Hunting Dragons with Binary Search (Binary Search)
!Binary Searching for Cinderella (Binary Search)
!Goldilocks and the Two Boolean Bears (Boolean)
!The Tortoise, the Hare, and 50000 Ants (Parallel Algorithms)
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Computational Fairy Tales The ant paused for a moment while he thought. "It is the algorithm
that we use," he finally replied. !
"Algorithm?" asked the grasshopper. !
"A set of steps or instructions for accomplishing a task," explained the ant. "Like when a carpenter builds a chair, he uses an algorithm
that includes measuring, cutting, smoothing, and hammering." !
"What task does your algorithm solve?" asked the grasshopper. "Does it solve the problem of having too much time during the
summer?" He chuckled out loud at his own joke. !
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Project Based Learning
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Information Systems?
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SQL Fiddle
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Futures Thinking !
Systems Thinking !
Design Thinking !
Computational Thinking
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Computational Thinking !
"Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everyone, not just
for computer scientists. To reading, writing, and arithmetic, we should add
computational thinking to every child’s analytical ability."
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Jannette Wing
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Computational Thinking Skills
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Analysis - the process of breaking the complex into smaller parts to gain
a better understanding of it.
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Decomposition
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Pattern recognition
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Pattern generalisation and abstraction
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Algorithm Design
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Who is going to teach it?
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What about Senior?
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Is computer education working?