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LEGOⓇ Data Scuttle
What’s not to love about LEGOⓇ bricks, other than their sharp corners that stab into the bottom of your bare foot when stepped on?
CSER MOOCs Program Update!
The CSER Team has been busy working with schools and teachers across Australia and lending digital technologies equipment to schools far and wide! Check out this snapshot of our progress so far in our update booklet.
Celebrating Space Week with New AI, AR & VR Lending Library Kits!
Emerging technologies have made it possible for us to visit places, have experiences and see things up close and personal that we might have not ever have had the chance to encounter before. As the world launches into Space Week (4th-10th of October), we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Lending Library Kits for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).
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Try these Augmented Reality Activities for Space Week
In this post we share some Augmented Reality (AR) learning activities that you can implement in your classroom for Space Week!
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Using Virtual Reality in the Classroom
The future is bright and experiential for students today. Never before has learning been more engaging, empowering and exploratory for students. With Virtual Reality we can extend students learning to experience and empathize with places, people, and nature first-hand and up close. Helen Kardiasmenos, NSW CSER Project Officer, explores some of the VR options available that you may find suitable for your classroom.
What does AR, VR and AI look like in the real world?
There is so much interest and excitement in the potential for Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), but what does it look like in the real world context? How are these emerging technologies already being used in today's world?
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Exploring forces on a rollercoaster using VR
CSER Project Officer Helen Kardiasmenos, is also a practicing teacher in NSW, here she shares some of her experiences for using VR in the Classroom by exploring forces on a rollercoaster.
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Your Stories - Casa Mia Montessori School, Bassendean, WA
In Term 1, 2019 Casa Mia Primary School students in Bassendean had the opportunity for some incursions with Robin McKean, a Project Officer from the University of Adelaide’s Computer Science Education Research Group (CSER).
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Your Stories - Vasse Primary School, WA
Vasse Primary School has been lucky enough to receive fabulous resources from the CSER team. We obtained the micro:bit kit for our weekly girl coding club. Our students enjoyed the challenge of learning and implementing robotics.
Micro:bit - the possibilities are endless
Teachers often ask for advice on what type of Digital Technologies equipment they should invest in, as there is an ever-growing plethora of gadgets flooding the educational space. The struggle is real!