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Constructionism in the classroom encourages and fosters student creativity and allows students to create and innovate. Constructionism is a pedagogical practice that can help students develop a large range of 21st century skills, they include, creativity, problem solving, critical thinking, inquiry, design thinking, collaboration, autonomy, literacy, numeracy, scientific understanding, digital literacy, communication, reflective learning capabilitiesContinue reading “Constructionism in the Classroom”

Video games in Education has been prevalent in school and has been increasing massively over the past ten years (Arnab, Berta, Earp, De Freitas, Popescu, Romero, & Usart. 2012). There are many different programs that allow for students to engage in games that may assist their learning in different ways either through the playing ofContinue reading “Games in Education”

Disclaimer: The website associated with this task has not been edited after the submission date. The Australian Indigenous tools and weapons research module is designed to foster student creativity and engagement with Australian history through the use of design-based learning. Researching, designing and 3D printing (using Tinkercad) of Indigenous tools/weapons facilitates learning as it promotesContinue reading “Justification”

In today’s lesson you will be creating a 3 minute presentation about the importance of your particular Indigenous tool/weapon. You will also be able to use your own 3D printed replica that you created last lesson as a visual aide. Your presentation should answer these questions: What is the name of your Tool/Weapon? How bigContinue reading “Lesson Three”

This lesson you will be using Tinkercad to create a replica of your chosen Indigenous Tool/Weapon. If you need a reminder on how Tinkercad works be sure to watch the video that gives good detail on how to use the different tools on offer. I can’t wait to see all of your designs! You willContinue reading “Lesson Two”

For this lesson we will be exploring different traditional Tools and Weapons that were used by indigenous Australians. Attached below is a document that should be completed individually by the end of today’s lesson. I have also attached some links that will help with your research. Once you have finished your research you are toContinue reading “Lesson One”

Virtual Reality (VR) is the complete emersion of a person into a virtual world a place that is not normally accessible in a short amount of time such as travel to another country or moving into a completely different world. Virtual reality made a large impact in the computer game industry and slowly moving intoContinue reading “Virtual Reality in Education”

Using Augmented Reality in the classroom allows for students to be able to visualise and understand how something may fit in that particular environment or setting and even create their own environment with a variety of different applications that are available online and also on many smart devices. The use of Augmented reality allows forContinue reading “Augmented Reality in Education”

Online learning has become very prominent over the past couple of months due to the covid-19 worldwide pandemic which has seen many businesses and educational institutions move to an online platform. With this move to online learning, conferencing platforms have become the new normality when it comes to teaching, therefore with this expansion of conferencingContinue reading “Online Learning with Zoom”

Coding is computer programming where a language has to be learnt and a level of computational thinking needs to be reached to understand how coding works (NESA, 2019). When coding in the class room is understood it can greatly benefit the students and foster great amounts of creativity that allows for greater computational thinking andContinue reading “Coding”