Digital skills in regional Queensland
for 10-15 year olds, for 7-10 year olds, For parents, For teachers for 10-15 year olds, for 7-10 year olds, For parents, For teachers

Digital skills in regional Queensland

The Digital Economy & Productivity team, within the Department of Science, Information Technology & Innovation, brings you the Digital Skills for all Queenslanders Regional Roadshow.

Through our Digital Skills for all Queenslanders roadshow, people in regional towns can interact with exciting digital technologies and consider the benefits and opportunities that the digital age brings and what it could mean in their lives.

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Free web conferences: Learn to code with Scratch
For parents, For teachers, free events, online classes, Scratch For parents, For teachers, free events, online classes, Scratch

Free web conferences: Learn to code with Scratch

Join guest facilitator, Emily de la Pena, Founder of Coding Kids and Advance Queensland’s Community Digital Champion as she demonstrates some of the ways she is helping Queensland teachers and students develop skills required in the new Digital Technologies curriculum. Let’s start from Scratch and learn to code. Play at home, build your first project with Scratch.

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Design thinking: Disrupting teachers
Coding tips, For teachers Coding tips, For teachers

Design thinking: Disrupting teachers

Design thinking is forcing a paradigm shift for Australian teachers, students and the entire education system. I attended a design thinking workshop for teachers at DigiTech by Design, held at Oakleigh State School. We were working in groups to solve a community problem by using the design thinking process. I overheard a teacher say, “I want to see the answer. So I can cheat and see what to work towards.”

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