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The Google Educator Conference will take place on Thursday July 14th and Friday July 15th 2022 at UWA for WA primary / secondary teachers, educators and ICT/ILT coordinators and researchers.
The registration is FREE and open to public, however, please note there are limited spots in the conference/workshop (maximum of 40 people each day) so please register ASAP via the event website http://WAGoogleEducatorConference.com/
Thank you to everyone who helped to make our ECAWA 2021 State Conference – #ECAWA2021 – such a great day!
Special thanks are due to Christ Church Grammar School for allowing us to use their wonderful IT Centre facilities, and for the support of their staff members.
The Keynote Speaker, Dr Linda McIver, got the day off to a interesting start for us, and the Presenters, in their various workshops and presentations, kept us informed and interested, and sent us off inspired to try new things.
Get your tickets for the ECAWA 2021 State Conference – #ECAWA2021 – NOW!
Tickets are available at https://ecawa.wa.edu.au/professional_learning/professional-learning-event-tickets/
The Conference is being held on Saturday the 4th of December, 2021, at Christ Church Grammar School in their ICT Centre.
In 2017 the WA DOE sent every primary school in the state a ‘STEM’ kit to introduce schools to digital technology devices. In this presentation Natalie will introduce you to theses devices and show you way to integrate them in to STEM learning and across other curriculum areas.
This presentation will be offered in Face to Face mode only. It will not be offered online.
The Game Changer Awards is an opportunity for children in Years 3 to 10 to showcase their innovative solutions to world challenges using project based learning, STEM skills, organisation, teamwork and presentation skills.
Cyber Security is a fast growing area of IT with much needed skills to keep us safe. But where do you start with students? This session will provide a wealth of scaffolded resources to use as stepping stones with your students, to support and challenge them, catering for a range of capabilities.
Managing data is an important aspect of Computer Science and understanding how to creates a database is a useful skill for students to learn.
In this session we will explore how to use the SQLite database engine to query existing databases and create our own new databases.
Novice programmers often hold misconceptions about how programs run and this can impact their learning of programming.
This session will discuss examples of these misconceptions, how to identify when students hold these misconceptions and strategies for modifying teaching instructions accordingly.
Creative coding and the generative art movement is all about using programming concepts and a healthy dose of mathematics to create weird, wonderful and sometimes beautiful things.
This hands on workshop will work through how to create interesting and extensible artwork in Blockly, Python, or JavaScript.
The Micro:bit is a very affordable and accessible and hugely versatile microprocessor which can be used to for everything from basic coding to optimisation and networking.
This hands on workshop is about how you can use the Micro:bit together with the UN Global Goals for Sustainability to allow students to design and create robotics projects to solve authentic problems.
