DTTA

It is a series of learning opportunities to grow your participants' understanding of computer science concepts and how they relate to their world, whether your participants are students in a classroom, or teachers attending professional development.

CS Unplugged at a Distance is an adaptation of the CS Unplugged activities supporting teachers faced with delivering teaching online, and for those delivering professional development virtually, to share the experience of teaching CS Unplugged face-to-face and online.

Join Professor Tim Bell and the team at UC CSERG for the next CS Unplugged at a distance topic: Highest Numbers (understanding algorithms). Live each Monday at 4pm NZ time. Register and choose the sessions that interest you: dthm4kaiako.ac.nz/events/event/5…

DTTA Committee meet to plan for the future during our first face-to-face meet-up in over 18 months, in Ngāmotu | New Plymouth. facebook.com/groups/dttanz/…

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? We do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

Two years later, @SiouxsieW and I have updated this old thing. Stay as safe as we can, look after each other. Full piece on @TheSpinoffTV here - thespinoff.co.nz/science/27-02-…

@JohnHFCreighton No John, you've joined the dark side!

Wordle 210 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩first timer here.

One of the projects the UC CSERG (Dept of fun stuff) been working on is now live! Thank you to our beta testers and everyone who attended our face to face sessions over the past 5 years, it's your feedback and what we learnt with you that helped us edx.org/course/teachin…

If you are a teacher in NZ and find yourself with a greater workload next week due to some of your colleagues being absent, flick me a message and I am happy to try to organise to video call your class to talk about space, or hold a session for NCEA physics or calculus students.

🚀🏫 Our @RocketLab Space Ambassadors School registration form is now live and ready for lift-off! If you know educators who would be keen to register their school or community group as part of the Space Ambassadors Program, send them this link/RT: eepurl.com/hKHp2T

wanting to do practice the sorting network at home over the holidays? Maybe make your own for the classroom? We have an easy DIY video on how to make your own sorting network mats! we have to make a few hundred of these for our world record attempt!: zcu.io/FZyc

Thinking of educators everywhere doing the mahi in ever-challenging times and contexts, on this the 100th Birthday anniversary of one of the most influential educational thinkers of the 20th century: Paulo Freire #GoogleDoodle via @GoogleDoodles google.com/doodles/paulo-…

Please support @HPSS who are raising funds to fight cancer by being part of Shave for a Cure. This is dear to our heart as we lost a dear colleague @gmacmanus just over a year ago to this disease. If you can help in any small way please go to link. givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/mau…

All 12-15 year olds in NZ are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine if accompanying their parent to their vaccine appointment or from Sept 1st if not. 9 million teens have had the shot already, parents can read more about it at: webmd.com/vaccines/covid… and hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditi…

👋 Hey Creative Commoners! We've put together a draft 'Statement of Principles Around License Enforcement' & we want your feedback 📝 Do these principles reflect your own values? Why/why not? How can we adapt them to better meet community expectations? creativecommons.org/2021/08/05/new…

For the Gerard MacManus Award for Excellence in Education, in partnership with @CITRENZ , we congratulate Rosalie Reiri!

SCHOOLS ALERT! Who's keen to get students fixing things in Term 3/4?! (especially Hamilton)