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AI image recognition - exploring limitations and bias

A hands-on activity to practise training and testing an artificial intelligence (AI) model, using cartoon faces, including a discussion about sources of potential algorithmic bias and how to respond to these sources.

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How to Use Scratch: Making a Sprite say something

You don't want a silent Sprite! Get your Sprite to talk by using the 'say' block.

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How to Use Scratch: Changing the costume of your Sprite

Make your Sprite look its best by learning how to change its costume.

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How to Use Scratch: Changing Colours of objects in Scratch

Make the images and objects in your project change colour when they are clicked!

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How to Use Scratch: Adding Background Sounds

Record and add your own background sound to your project or choose the sounds from the library like a rattle, a ripple or a pop!

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How to Use Scratch: Adding a Sprite

So, you have your new project in Scratch - now it's time to add a Sprite!

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How to Use Scratch: Making Sprites interactive

Make your Sprite jump, move, say something or change costume.

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How to Use Scratch: Making a Sprite Move

Tell your Sprite where to go - get your Sprite to move in all different directions - left, right, up, down

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How to Use Scratch: Intro to Scratch 2.0

Want to make your own games? Scratch is a programming language, created by MIT, that makes it easy to create interactive art, stories, simulations, and games. Explore your ideas and share your creations online.

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How to Use Scratch: Deleting the Cat Sprite

A computer character is called a 'sprite'. Can you delete the cat sprite from your Scratch card?

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How to Use Scratch: Adding sounds to your Scratch project

There are all sorts of sounds you could add to your Scratch project. Give your project that extra 'oomph' by adding sounds.

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Managing a group project: Augmented Reality

This is a unit for Year 9 from the Scope and sequence resources from the DT Hub. In this collaborative project, students plan, implement and monitor an AR project. They develop project management skills, collaborate with others and undertake a specific role. Use this flow of activities to plan and assess students against ...

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User interface

Find out about User interface. Use this topic from the Digital Technologies Hub to learn more, get ideas about how to teach about it, find out what other schools are doing and use the applications and games in the classroom.

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Data and information

This is a unit for Year 5 from the Scope and sequence resources from the DT Hub. The topic of data collection and presentation is organised into four key elements. Use this flow of activities to plan and assess students against the relevant achievement standards. Students collect their own data and analyse the resulting ...

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Communicate ideas and information

This is a unit for Year 3 from the Scope and sequence resources from the DT Hub. The topic of managing a project and communicating online is organised into four key elements. Use this flow of activities to plan and assess students against the relevant achievement standards. Students manage a project and follow the problem ...

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Creating a digital game

This is a unit for Year 6 from the Scope and sequence resources from the DT Hub. The topic of creating a digital solution is organised into four key elements. Use this flow of activities to plan and assess students against the relevant achievement standards. Students follow the problem solving process to design and create ...

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Create an app or game

This is a unit for Year 7 from the Scope and sequence resources from the DT Hub. The topic of creating a digital solution is organised into four key elements. Use this flow of activities to plan and assess students against the relevant achievement standards. Students follow the problem solving process to design and create ...

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Robotics and embedded systems

This is a unit for Year 10 from the Scope and sequence resources from the DT Hub. A selection of four projects is presented to accommodate a range of student skill levels and interest, teacher background and school resources. Select the relevant project for your students or allow them to choose a project that appeals to ...

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Systems thinking

Find out about Systems thinking. Use this topic from the Digital Technologies Hub to learn more, get ideas about how to teach about it, find out what other schools are doing and use the applications and games in the classroom.

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Is it going to rain today?

In this lesson sequence students understand the importance of data in effective decision-making, and are able to find, sort and interpret Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) rainfall data, and to collect their own data and analyse the resulting datasets.