In this Casa Behind the Scenes episode, the White Rabbit has a follow-up conversation with Niek, the Digi Wizard behind the Digi lessons offered to the Lower and Upper Elementary classrooms at Casa.
This time, Niek explains how the digi lessons work, and presents the program that he is developing to equip children to face the digital world.
(00:00) Episode Introduction
(00:25) Physical Classroom environment for Digi lessons in LE
(02:24) Physical Classroom environment for Digi lessons in UE
(03:52) Children's Google accounts
(05:47) Digital Classroom environmet
(07:17) Connecting Digi with Cosmic Themes
(08:08) Basic Digi Skills
(13:31) Computational thinking
(18:14) Digital Cityzenship and Media Literacy
(20:53) Collaboration between Niek and the other classroom guides
(22:06) How can parents and guides help with Digi
Digi Curriculum categories:
1) Basic Digi Skills
Learning how to handle computer hardware (computer, mouse, headset) and their google account
2) Digital Creation
Creating digital things with digital tools (videos, podcast, minecraft...)
3) Computational Thinking
Learning about (programming) logic with robots and drones using live programming, visual programing with Blockly, MakeCode or Python.
4) Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy
How to find and challenge information on internet, respectful/civilized online communication, digital communication challenges (fake news, hacking, ... )
Physical Materials:
- Cubetto: https://www.primotoys.com/
- Robot with buttons: https://www.clementoni.com/be/66799-mind-designer/
- Robot ball : https://sphero.com/collections/coding-robots
- Quadcopter: https://www.ryzerobotics.com/tello
- Picoo: https://www.picoo.com/ (digitally assisted outside games)
Digital Materials:
- Safe Google account for all children with basic tools (email, calendar, meet, chat, docs): https://myaccount.google.com
- LE and UE digital google classroom environments: https://classroom.google.com
- Programming exercises: https://studio.code.org/s/express-2019?section_id=3481751
- Minecraft Education: https://education.minecraft.net/en-us
- Typing Club: https://casaschool.typingclub.com/signup/GUZJY65
- Video editing software: https://filmora.wondershare.com/
- Canva: https://www.canva.com/brand/join?token=u0YvbuB-Qg-bs6mtpaW1ZQ&brandingVariant=edu&referrer=team-invite
- Skillsdojo: https://www.skillsdojo.nl/echt-of-fake/
- Blockly: https://developers.google.com/blockly or Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/
- Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
- Arduino: https://www.arduino.cc/
- Microbit: https://microbit.org/
