MIT App Inventor for Year 7 – 10
We had the privilege to host Karen Lang, Business and Education Development Manager for MIT App Inventor, MIT, Boston. Two workshops, one in Wairarapa and the other in Wellington were…
3D printing pen for fast prototyping in the classroom
3D printing models in the classroom takes ages. Especially if your students decide to make some complex shapes which takes long hours to complete, so you decide to leave it…
Teaching Programming with a plan and pedagogy
I have been doing a course ( https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/secondary-programming-pedagogy) which reminded me about the 'why' and 'how' of teaching programming; keeping the students at the center of it all. Quite often…
CS Education – SubTopics
While doing my Mobile CS principles course on EdX, I came across a number of topics that could be covered in CS Ed which teachers don't really think about. The…
Final Project for Mobile CS principles course
Project Title: Who Wants to be a Millionaire - Mobile CSP edition Elevator Pitch: This is a quiz app based around the popular quiz show, but the questions are specific…
Arduino LED Cube for year 9-10 project
I love the LED Cube. There are some amazing projects done on the web around LED cubes. The RGB LED cubes are even better! But let's start by looking into…
XR workshop summary – an opportunity for a student holiday programme in AR, VR, MR ( 6 mins reading time)
It gives me great pleasure to report back from the recent, exciting XR workshop that was organised by Craig Anslow, professor at Victoria University of Wellington. This workshop was aimed…
2020 presents new challenges in #CSed
2020 is a year of challenges for New Zealand schools embracing the new 'Digital Technology curriculum integration' initiative from the government. The challenge being most schools are not prepared for…
CS4HS_VUW – Digital Technology teacher conference
The best(and most popular) response I get in my feedback when asked, "Why did you need this conference?" was to network with other teachers and see what/how everyone is doing.…
Space and Science Festival – Rocket Soldering Kit
This kit was designed as an electronics activity for the Space and Science festival at Onslow College held a few years ago. As the website is down, I requested Lee…
STEAM Teachers Education to Employment day
This joint effort between the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Education and ECS Outreach, VUW was held on 12 November 2019 at Victoria University. The objective was to provide opportunities…
Building a learning space for students
After my two week trip of New York, Providence and Rhode Island, along with combining a few comments from Makerspaces locally as well as schools who set them up in…