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XR workshop summary – an opportunity for a student holiday programme in AR, VR, MR ( 6 mins reading time)

It gives me great pleasure to report back from the recent, exciting XR workshop that was organised by Craig Anslow,…

3D printing pen for fast prototyping in the classroom

3D printing models in the classroom takes ages. Especially if your students decide to make some complex shapes which takes…

Teaching Programming with a plan and pedagogy

I have been doing a course ( https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/secondary-programming-pedagogy) which reminded me about the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of teaching programming; keeping…

CS Education – SubTopics

While doing my Mobile CS principles course on EdX, I came across a number of topics that could be covered…

Final Project for Mobile CS principles course

Project Title: Who Wants to be a Millionaire – Mobile CSP edition Elevator Pitch: This is a quiz app based…

Arduino LED Cube for year 9-10 project

I love the LED Cube. There are some amazing projects done on the web around LED cubes. The RGB LED…

2020 presents new challenges in #CSed

2020 is a year of challenges for New Zealand schools embracing the new ‘Digital Technology curriculum integration’ initiative from the…

CS4HS_VUW – Digital Technology teacher conference

The best(and most popular) response I get in my feedback when asked, “Why did you need this conference?” was to…

Space and Science Festival – Rocket Soldering Kit

This kit was designed as an electronics activity for the Space and Science festival at Onslow College held a few…

STEAM Teachers Education to Employment day

This joint effort between the Ministry of Education, Faculty of Education and ECS Outreach, VUW was held on 12 November…