Understanding the New DT NZC

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Over the last few months, I have been doing an online programme with Mindlab. Mindlab seems to be the front-runners in the new DT NZC, with much funding coming from the government and other organizations. 

However, the course has guided me through the two main strands of what the DT curriculum is about:

Creating digital outcomes

Computational Thinking

It's given me an insight on how this curriculum may play out in the years to come and also an understanding of things should be learning.

eg:
Creating digital outcomes (user input, to change output) 
-Editing images, text, files. 
- 3d design
-3d printing
- Visual art through computers

 Computational thinking

 -Transactional writing in a computer context. A series of instructions to input into the computer.
- Early code using 'Scratch'
- Binary in a Maths context 1001110 etc.

Ultimately the point of the curriculum is to prepare students for industries that will be there when they leave high school.

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