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magazine ISSUE 25 | TERM 4 | 2023

Meet the Narooma High School RoboRebels

Build a business with your students Virtual Reality and ARTEXPRESS

Director’s welcome Term 4 already! How has your year with technology been thus far? T4L released the Beginning Teacher Tech Guide in Term 1 and it’s been one of our biggest reads ever – so don’t forget to share it with colleagues new to the classroom. In this edition we unpack the new T4L Kids magazine focused on growing a business, we explore some of our favourite tools and share some of our winning tips with you. Share this resource at your next staff meeting and check out our back issues to keep you inspired.

Linda Lazenby Director, Digital Teaching and Learning

Teacher feature Tanya Riach Digital Learning Advisor

What do you wish you’d known about tech in the DoE in the beginning?

All of the free resources that are available for teachers. We

Tell us about your current role with the Digital Support Team. What’s been a highlight?

have so many platforms we can access. T4L, stem.T4L, Digital

I support teachers to integrate technology into their lessons. It’s

Engage (Yammer), platform can be. Utilising social media to

about supporting them to choose the best piece of technology to complete a task, designing new tasks that could not have

Learning Selector, Universal Resources Hub, Statewide Staffroom just to name a few. Also, how beneficial the Viva build tech skills in small chunks to learn how others integrate tech into their classroom.

previously been completed without technology and to create engaging learning opportunities for our students. I also mentor

How does tech help you and other teachers?

some of our Digital Classroom Officers in high schools in my region.

The technology underutilised would be Edge Collections.

I absolutely love being able to create folders of resources,

What has your teaching pathway been?

add sticky notes related to why I plan to use a resource and

I’ve been a science teacher for thirteen years before joining the

presenting on Main Learning Displays

stem.T4L team, then the Digital Support Team in order to deliver on the outcomes of the Rural Access Gap. As a science teacher I have taught Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Junior Science.

While on maternity leave many years ago, I would present science lessons in the local preschools and primary schools to excite the younger students to help build skills and enthusiasm for science.

have all the tabs open with one click when around the state. I also love how easy it is to share all of the resources in the folder in one note or word for programming and include a bibliography. I’ve also been the micro:bit Australian lead – check out page 4 for more on this!

About magazine.T4L 2

This magazine is produced by Technology 4 Learning (T4L) at the Information

Artwork created by Suzanna, a student from Boggabilla

Technology Directorate with the NSW Department of Education. This magazine

Central School on Gamilaraay Country. It represents

is created on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.

themes of community, school, friendship and family.

T4L LOVES Issue 15 out now!

Have some entrepreneurial

kids

minds ticking over? Students

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plan, prototype and promote their own business ideas in the latest edition of T4L Kids—Build your own business. Each edition comes with teachers’ notes for the classroom.

New stem.T4L report Want to learn more about ISSUE 15 TERM 4 2023

kits in our schools? Read the

Love dogs?

Start a dog-walking business!

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tech tools to power up your business

the impact of the aeroponics Rozelle Public School case study in this fascinating new report, just released.

Build your own business

stem.

A study on the implementation of aeroponics in NSW public schools: A case study of Rozelle Public School In this report, findings indicated that the aeroponics kit had cultivated experiential learning, where students were actively engaged in their learning process and played key roles such as assembly of towers, researching, planting, PH testing, monitoring the plants growth, and packing the kit.

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Publish Date: August, 2023 Author: Dr. Rose Izadinia

Technology for Learning Portfolio, NSW Department of Education

Meet the Bangadirra Barbers

Information Technology Directorate

Understand your customer

Canva with one click!

Create with Adobe XD

Canva for Education is now

Prototyping with Adobe

just a click away for NSW

has never been easier

public school teachers and

to unpack with this

students. Learn more about

on-demand resource,

your classes and your school

especially for teachers

account here.

from the T4L team.

Teachers’ Innovation Challenge Do you have enterprising secondary students? The department has created the iEntrepreneur resource kit for secondary schools including crafted lessons, e-learning modules for teachers and student worksheets for those keen to embrace the power of entrepreneurial learning. Schools involved this year took part in the Innovation Challenge and came together at a symposium to share their school’s entrepreneurial progress. If you’re keen to know more, head here. You can find the e-learning modules on MyPL.

Contributors Editorial Director

Editor

Contributor

Designer

Linda Lazenby

Yvette Poshoglian

Sandy Phillips

Aditi Verma 3

Powered by micro:bit

By Tanya Riach from the T4L team

I have been a micro:bit champion and Australian micro:bit lead for the last few years. 39 million students across more than sixty countries have used the micro:bit for learning.

It allows students from the age of 8-18 to code (block or text-based) or collect data from a physical device.

My favorite lesson is related to collecting environmental data. Students can measure light, sound and soil moisture with the micro:bit in the garden through the built in sensors. Increasing the difficulty by collecting the temperature, light and sound levels remotely through the built in radio to a micro:bit that is connected via USB to a computer.

Great micro:bit resources Explore Issue 24 of magazine.T4L for more

Book a microcontroller kit from stem.T4L

Explore micro:bit projects using MakeCode,

on the power of microcontrollers.

and explore the video resources.

Python and Scratch on the official site.

BOOK A KIT

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Meet the RoboRebels from Narooma High School T4L recently had the pleasure of hosting the RoboRebels from Narooma High, who this year participated in the FRC (FIRST® Robotics Competition) World Robotics Championships hosted in Houston, Texas. The RoboRebels were one of seven Australian schools participating in the major event , and the only school representing the NSW DoE. The team built ‘Noodle’, a ground intake robot that picks up and moves cubes around. The team of five senior students, plus their incredible support team (their teachers) put together their own special edition of T4L Kids including top tips on how to set up a robotics club in your school and created a podcast of their experiences. Share it with your keen robotics students now!

Read their T4L Kids – Robotics Special Edition

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The RoboRebels in the ITD podcasting studio.

Listen to the RoboRebels podcast.

T4L events – schedule now or watch on demand Plan your technology PL in Term 4 and make sure you bookmark the T4L events page. Did you miss a session from earlier in the year? Catch up on our previous events with our on-demand content at a time that suits you. Topics covered recently include Microsoft Cloud and Google Cloud workflows, Canva Single Sign on and more.

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Unpacking T4L Kids Issue 15 Build a business with your students

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Issue 15 is all about supporting young entrepreneurs in your class. This independent learning resource could be used as part of your programming. There is a focus on exploring social

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entrepreneurism for good, as well as building a business for profit.

Love dogs?

Start a dog-walking business!

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tech tools to power up your business

CURRICULUM LINKS COMMERCE, HSIE, ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS

Build your own business

Design thinking Each issue of T4L Kids follows a design thinking process, and this issue encourages

Create a budget

Meet the Bangadirra Barbers

students to build a business using tech tools. Students will develop their business ideas individually or in a team.

Understand your customer

Research and plan their business idea

Identify and define what makes their business special or unique

Test and evaluate their plan with others

Produce and implement their idea

Student challenges Students have two challenges in the magazine to work through, each employing different tech tools to support them as they develop their business ideas with their colleagues/team.

Challenge 1 – Create your business Students will research using data where their business will fit into the community and investigate start-up costs. They will plan a budget and prototype their business or idea.

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profile and promote their service or product. They will design a logo, develop a marketing plan, build an app, website or podcast and advertise their company!

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For over thirty years, ARTEXPRESS has showcased and celebrated the finest HSC Visual Arts bodies of work through exhibitions at galleries around NSW. Now, thanks to an innovative approach to making the works more accessible, fifty-two bodies of work have been digitally scanned and a custom virtual gallery has been built.

The gallery and the works themselves are best experienced with a VR headset and hand controllers, and are also accessible via PCs, laptops and iPads. VR allows students to handle each of the artworks in 3D. T4L was proud to play host to the launch of the virtual gallery unveiling at the Information Technology Directorate in August.

Explore the virtual ARTEXPRESS gallery now.

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Viva la tech!

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highlights amazing work happening in our schools and discusses authentic teaching and learning activities using tech in the classroom. Most of our highly tech-engaged staff use the collegiality of Viva Engage to make their work easier and have amazing stories to share. Greig and Stu find and chat with new superstars every week and help to give their stories to a wider audience.

They’ve already chatted with over 160 different guests across more than 100 episodes! You can join us live every Monday afternoon during school terms at 3:30pm and chat with the crowd or catch up on any of the past episodes via the recordings.

All you need to know is at the Viva Hot Spots website!

Join us on Teams every Monday during school term at 3:30pm.

Go behind the scenes at William Rose School for Specific Purposes Episode 37 – The Virtual Staffroom The Virtual Staffroom chats with Principal Nicole Parker of William Rose School.

This inspirational chat explores how assistive technologies assist students of differing needs, and Nicole also shares how no two days are the same at this incredible school.

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Term 3 STEM showcase in the Illawarra At the end of Term 3, Illawarra and Shoalhaven schools came together for a STEM showcase at the University of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus.

Students from fourteen schools in the region have been working with mentors across the university and industry sector to develop their STEM projects ranging from robotics

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to app design, with a focus on sustainability, people and the environment.

‘Our goal is to build confidence and capacity in the classroom, and also build some great opportunities for industry to share ideas and provide opportunities for students in the STEM space,’ said Illawarra Academy of STEM Project Officer Russ Taunton of the Young ICT Explorer program.

The schools involved in the STEM showcase were Corrimal, Warrawong, Illawarra Sports and Shoalhaven high schools, and primary schools Bellambi, Corrimal East, Tarrawanna, Lake Heights, Kemblawarra, Farmborough Rd, Mt Brown, Berkeley and Culburra.

If you’re interested in building an app at your school, explore our T4L Kids resources around 21app design and development!

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