We had an awesome day with our DFI cohort and exploring everything about Media. This particular day focuses on being creative with technology to do things that we couldn't ordinarily do without it. When we look at creative tasks, there's always something for everyone; even the experts amongst us come away with a new trick up their sleeve.
I was looking for something a little different to do with Google Slides and came across a great idea from Ditch that textbook. A colleague of mine was also looking for something that would hook and engage some year 9 boys who were struggling to get on board with their learning.
Building on the idea of Parson's Problems, I created the slides but left some links broken and unfinished. I first came across Parson's problems last year when I was studying Teaching Programming at Canterbury University. I'm interested to see whether or not students engage with this approach. I think the idea of designing their own app, which will run in the web browser and through their blog, will hook them in. Potentially they could download it and add it to their phone with a shortcut that then plays in the browser. This is a great task that will align with design and developing digital outcomes from the new digital technologies curriculum. It's also a good introduction to computational thinking and programming in something like Scratch or Python.
