are we really that different to our ipads?

CSER F - 6 Australian curriculum Digital technologies mooc 

After developing courses that embedded the Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies across faculties in the Middle Years I decided to complete the CSER MOOC exploring the F - 6 course to help me understand the context of the Middle Years course. 

The process of completing a MOOC was interesting in itself - this one connected you to a Google Group and part of the requirement of the course was to share ideas and tasks and reflect on your peers submissions. The final task is included below and outlines  and it was great to bring together the things learned in the course. I must be honest, when completing a MOOC I had to set my own due dates and timeline to ensure I made it through - it's easy to put it on the back burner as things get busy! 

An overview

The task involves a series of 4 activities that occur over 1 day that enable students to answer the central question  Are we really that different to our iPads? They include 

• Learning Activity 1 - Robot Teacher. Learning Intentions  include to simulate the process of making steps, evaluating and refining them for clarity and to explore similarities and differences between human behaviour and algorithm behavior 
• ​Learning Activity 2 - Imagine if… -  in Science. Learning Intentions  include introducing the concept of branching in context of current learning in Science

• Learning Activity 3 - Tic Tac Toe - in PE. Learning Intention is to introduce the concept of iteration
• ​Learning Activity 4 - Hopscotch coding - bringing the day together. Learning Intentions focusses on students working in Hopscotch to draw together the concepts of steps, branching, iteration and  coding    

Each activity has reflection prompts for the students to completes. The key Learner Profile attributes developed are knowledgeable, thinker, inquirer and reflective. 

Access the Learning Activity outline here

Access the science data gathering form here