Connect was the next link of our Manaiakalani journey. It is the digital world, that our children are so comfortable in, that enables us to connect with each other. The Manaiakalani outreach is growing rapidly and we now have such a great wealth of knowledge at our finger tips by just connecting with other schools within this huge community of learners. I loved the session the "Trail Blazers" gave us. Lots of great ideas to teach computational thinking. It was nice to find out how computers think. I am going to some of these ideas in my teaching like breaking down instructions into steps for someone else to solve- this is a great skill for writing as well. And I loved the idea of learning binary code- It took me a while to grasp some of the aspects, but with the code that was given I could at least work out some of the pictures- I can see this working in my class as extension work for fast finishers. And I loved the chance to play with a 3-d pen.
