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Our digital aspiration?
Computers (aka digital technologies) have been in our classrooms and schools for four decades now – almost as long as I’ve been an educator – yet still we’re trying to find a way of describing or...
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Character education for the digital age
As we prepare for the return of students to our classrooms, many teachers and schools will be considering the implications of their BYOD programmes and increased wireless access meaning more kids...
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I came across this quote from David Rowan, editor of Wired UK on a website I visited today: Each day, according to IBM, we collectively generate 2.5 quintillion bytes — a tsunami of structured and...
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Computing our future…
To code or not to code – that is the question that has been debated hotly for more than two decades now in many countries around the world – including New Zealand. Like many other countries, New...
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Information Fluency
I've been reading a little lately about the notion of information fluency and digital literacy in relation to some work I've been doing, and came across this interesting infographic below from Denis...
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Whakahaerehia tētahi Hour of Code Mahimaina mō tō akomanga
December 5-11 is Computer Science Education Week, and everywhere I go there seems to be all sorts of activity going on with children in schools learning to code and use computers in interesting ways....
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A shake-up for education?
This week I had the privilege of attending an event in Auckland where Minister of Education, Nikki Kaye, officially released the final draft of the Digital Technologies-Hangarau Matihiko Curriculum...
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