Teachers Notes
Introduction
Thank you for exploring this Digital Technologies resource. Please ensure that you are familiar with the content before sharing it with your class. In addition to what is on the home page, this page provides some notes that may be useful for you as a teacher.
Please let me know if you intend to use this resource with your class as I can then email you a link to the form responses from your class.
Technology Curriculum
Following are the progress outcomes that I have identified as fitting this resource:
Designing & Developing Digital Outcomes:
Progress outcome 3
In authentic contexts, students follow a defined process to design, develop, store, test, and evaluate digital content to address given contexts or issues, taking into account immediate social, ethical, and end-user considerations. They identify the key features of selected software and choose the most appropriate software and file types to develop and combine digital content.
Students understand the role of operating systems in managing digital devices, security, and application software and are able to apply file management conventions using a range of storage devices. They understand that with storing data comes responsibility for ensuring security and privacy.
Learning intention: I am learning how to follow steps to design, create, save, test and evaluate scratch animation.
Computational Thinking for Digital Technologies: Progress outcome 2
In authentic contexts and taking account of end-users, students give, follow, and debug simple algorithms in computerised and non-computerised contexts. They use these algorithms to create simple programs involving outputs and sequencing (putting instructions one after the other) in age-appropriate programming environments.
Learning intention: I am learning how to follow instructions to create a scratch animation, making choices about the best code for my purpose.
If you and your students are still building capability around the revised digital technologies curriculum content there is a great resource on our website that 'decodes' each of the progress outcomes. Decoded for Learners Series.
Scratch
Scratch is a free web based coding app that can be found at scratch.mit.edu. Scratch uses block coding to make it simple for students to program their own interactive stories, games, and animations.
Teacher Accounts
As an educator, you can request a teacher account, which makes it easier to create accounts for groups of students and to manage your students’ projects and comments.
I recommended that you do open a Scratch teacher account if you haven't already got one. Here's a quick demonstration of how to do this:
Scratch - Create a teacher account.mp4Tutorials
If you haven’t used Scratch before take a look at our introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTY7jAODNqM&t=16s or in te reo Maōri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A78BfUkRgRw&t=4s
There are also plenty of tutorials available on the Scratch website under the 'ideas' tab.
Extension/ Next Steps
Designing & Developing with Digital Technologies
It is suggested that those following my tutorial first design their own ship and world map to use in Scratch. This can be done using a programme such as Paint 3D on Windows, or autodraw.com which can be used from a Chromebook or any other device.
The Scratch tutorial briefly mentions what else could be done with the animation. Once Hobson's journey has been animated Scratch could be used to tell the story of what happened once Captain Hobson was in Aotearoa. This tutorial is a good starting point for more research and sharing about Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
End Users
Specify who will be viewing the completed animations (maybe whanau or another class) giving a purpose and end user that can be considered in the design process.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
This activity leads well into further inquiry into the Treaty of Waitangi. Part 1 of a 7 part series is used for this lesson. Watching the rest of the series will give you more of an understanding about what was happening before the signing. However please review this content carefully before sharing it with your class as some of the parts have explicit language that will not be suitable for all ages.
Waitangi Treaty Grounds offer virtual visits, this could be a great way for your class to find out more about our history. Waitangi.org.nz