Digital Technologies Curriculum and Skills Workshop

Event code: 18FTF3AUG27

Digital Technologies Workshops are offered through 2018 by DLTV on behalf of the Australian Computing Academy (for the University of Sydney).

The workshop is a full-day training session to prepare teachers F-10 to teach the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies. The workshop provides an introduction of the concepts and goals of the Digital Technologies curriculum, as well as providing teachers with practical programming assistance to deliver the new curriculum in their classrooms.

The workshops will involve a curriculum overview, followed by a programming introduction using the Australian Digital Technologies Challenges being developed by the ACA.

Attendees are asked to bring a laptop computer and power supply.

Example Activities

• Crypto unplugged DiC activity (rot cipher)

• ACA Challenge - Cookie Clicker

• ACA Challenge - Python Turtle (Flags or Snow HoC)

• Visual and text programming

• Blockly Turtle

• Python Biology

• Resources and Activities Roadshow

Who Should Attend?

• Primary and secondary teachers looking to improve their understanding of the Digital Technologies curriculum

• Teachers and technology leaders seeking resources to support the implementation of the curriculum

Presenter

• Nathan Alison, Professional Learning Coordinator, DLTV