Big thumbs up to our Student Teachers' of Digital Technology

By Shona Kelleher | Posted: Monday September 10, 2018

The digi space was buzzing with the noise of our students sharing their knowledge and expertise across a wide range of technologies with our parent and family community last week.

Our second Digi Community Workshop was a great night.  After a hard day at school, a number of our talented students took on the big challenge of teaching their parents and other community members the skills and techniques around:

• designing a 3D shape on Tinkercad and then printing it out.
  
• programming the EV3 Lego Mindstorm robot to navigate through a maze and knock down a wall. 
  
• drawing on a digital animation pad. 
  
• using the green screen app to have a picture of themselves in the mouth of a crocodile.
  
• playing board games generated by a number of digital tools.
  
• creating a colour code maze for an Ozobot to follow. 
  
• playing a cardboard piano that made sound through scratch code and a Makey Makey board and more! 
  

It was magic to see our young people empowered with the confidence to pass on knowledge to the older generation.

As you may have heard last December, we have a new Draft Curriculum document around the introduction of Digital Technology in all NZ schools by 2020. 

Casebrook, has been forward thinking in this area and is well placed for the  implementation of this new curriculum by being very well resourced alongside running a specialist programme. 

If you would like further information please follow the link to relevant information on how the new Digital Technologies Curriculum is unfolding across schools.