Digital Passport / Digital Curriculum

April - I have signed up and started a digital passport through 'The Mind Lab'

The Mind Lab by Unitec has launched ‘Digital Passport’, a new tool that aims to empower teachers in New Zealand to realise the opportunities of the new Digital Curriculum and bring 21st Century skills to today’s students.

The Digital Passport provides an opportunity for teachers across New Zealand to engage confidently with the new digital curriculum and enable their students to develop fluency in computational thinking and digital outcomes. It provides a set of resources that exemplify the student centred, creative and critical approach to digital skills that are essential to future focused education.”

Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko is about teaching our tamariki and children how technology works, and how they can use that knowledge to solve problems.

'Once this new curriculum is introduced, our kids won’t just be using devices like computers and smart phones. The changed curriculum will mean that schools will be teaching our young people the computer science principles that all digital technologies are built on. Students will find out about how computers work – understanding what makes ‘algorithms’ and ‘binary code’.

I have started workshop 1 (year1-3) and will work my way through to year 10.