STEM Ideas for Preppies!
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) is so engaging for students in the primary years when each subject is integrated into ‘making’ activities. Students...
Maths Fun with Robots!
Programming robots and understanding that robots need ‘us’ to tell them what to do gives our girls empowerment to code. Preps to Grade 6...
TechMate
There has been lots written on the amount of time fathers (and significant men) spend in their daughters’ lives and how important it is...
Robotics Competition: Hour of Code
This year we celebrated an Hour of Code (other posts from previous years can be found here and here)with an Interhouse Robotics Competition. Our...
Technology in Today’s Classroom to Inspire Ideas
When your like-minded colleague and friend, Anne Weaver, suggests a PD workshop on a Saturday morning in the holidays of course you say YES!...
Robots to Teach Coding Part 3 (Years 5 & 6)
Final post on selecting and incorporating robots in activities to engage students in learning to code. Followed by a list of resources to support...
Robots to Teach Coding Part 2 (Yrs 3 & Yrs 4)
‘Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer...
Robots to Teach Coding – Part 1 (K – 2)
“Everyone should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think”
Steve Jobs
Learning to code really does make ‘thinking’ happen!...
Inspiring Feedback
Wow! I received an uplifting email today about my blog and I immediately had to get back to posting! I have been a little...
Implementing the Digital Technologies Curriculum
At the end of last year, I attended an extremely worthwhile workshop looking at the Digital Technologies Curriculum and how it can be implemented...