English
Digital Technologies + English
(See also - Embedding Digital Technologies in Literacy Activities)
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The Digital Technologies Hub has some great resources for integrating Digital Technologies concepts into English lessons and explaining their relevance. See this lesson plan Fairytale Fun. Students learn to use the slide sorter function to arrange a set of presentation slides in correct sequence to retell a fairytale.
Clever computers (Digital Technologies Hub lesson)
In this sequence of lessons explore how to help students understand the elements of a digital system including hardware, software and some commonly used peripheral devices. Investigate how these elements work together.
Planting fruit and vegetables (Digital Technologies Hub lesson)
In this sequence of lessons students grow a plant from seed, capturing each step and decision as an algorithmic process and recording data for future learning.
Buzzing with Bee-Bots (Digital Technologies Hub lesson)
In this lesson, students follow and describe a series of steps to program a floor robot. Plan a route to program a robot to follow a path and write a sequence of steps (algorithm).
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Peripherals (Digital Technologies Hub lesson)
In this sequence of lessons students explore different types of peripherals used every day in order to identify the data transmitted. A peripheral is an auxiliary device such as a computer mouse or keyboard that connects to and works with a device in some way.
Introducing algorithms (Digital Technologies Hub lesson)
In this sequence of lessons, students design a sequence of steps for others to follow. They convey their instructions to peers and evaluate the work of others to determine if the outcome was successful.
Plan a Choose Your Own Adventure Story (Digital Technologies Hub lesson)
In this lesson sequence, students create a storyboard to plan a ‘choose your own adventure' story, where the reader is provided with a number of decisions that lead to alternative endings.
Choose Your Own Adventure Story with Branching - PowerPoint or Google Slides
Sample Choose Your Own Adventure Story template (PowerPoint version)- simple advanced
Sample Choose Your Own Adventure Story template (Google Slides version) simple advanced
Sample PowerPoint version - Going to the Park
Sample Google Slides story - Going to the Park
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Choose Your Own Adventure Story with Branching and Iteration - Scratch
Sample story planning template (Word Document)
Sample story plan (pdf Document)
Sample Scratch version (online version)
Sample Scratch version (offline version-download)
Home/school communications (Digital Technologies Hub lesson)
In this lesson sequence, students use big data sets and school surveys, to design (and as an extension activity, make) a new digital communication solution for the school.
Put the user in user interface (Digital Technologies Hub lesson - UNPLUGGED)
In this lesson sequence students investigate the importance of quality design and design principles in creating an efficient and effective user interface.
Class blog (Digital Technologies Hub lesson)
In this lesson sequence students investigate features of a good blog focusing on such things as the concept, purpose, audience and critical features.