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DT Resources -DT Hub & Drone Safety for schools!
Education Services Australia have given a makeover to the Digital Technologies Hub!
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The Girls in STEM Toolkit - Classroom strategies for inclusive learning environments
CSER Researcher, Dr Rebecca Vivian, partnered with Education Services Australia to undertake research into inclusive STEM learning and teaching to produce a practical evidence-based guide for teachers based on the 7 Principles for Inclusive STEM learning environments.
CSER partners with Digital Tech Hub to deliver free webinars!
This year CSER partnered with the Digital Technologies Hub to deliver a series of webinars covering Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Inclusive STEM design practices, that you can now watch on-demand!
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Cyber security activities in high school
There are many interesting activities that you can use to develop cyber security and awareness knowledge and skills with high school students that align to the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies. In this post, we highlight a few of our favourites featured in our MOOC.
How can I teach about cyber security in the primary classroom?
Cyber security provides an increasingly important and relevant context for teaching key areas of the Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies and ICT Capabilities. Here we highlight a few example ideas from our latest cyber security MOOC for K-6 Teachers.
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ACA Cyber Security Challenges for High School Students
The Australian Computing Academy has released a number of exciting cyber security challenges free for school students.
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How Do You Plan an Education Research Study?
Dr Rebecca Vivian and her international K-12 Computer Science (CS) education colleagues were accepted to present a special workshop session about conducting K-12 quantitative computing education research at the 2020 SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) Conference in the US in March. The session aimed to up-skill interested researchers and educators new to research.
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A Coffee Assignment for Introductory Programming Students
Ordering hot drinks, such as coffee, at a cafe is a familiar experience to most students and provides an excellent context for students thinking about algorithm design, including conditionals (if/else), lists, loops and variables.
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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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Join our course on Teaching AI in K-12 classrooms
Is it possible to teach Artificial Intelligence (AI) in primary and secondary classrooms? We think so and have launched two new courses for K-12 teachers!
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