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• TLF-IDA002383

This document presents the milestones in St Mary's Primary School's participation in the Digital Technologies in Focus project.

• TLF-IDA002398

This article explores the challenges associated with using knowledge from different domains (and people) to work on a common problem, issue or puzzle. It acknowledges that the differences in how disciplines structure their knowledge raise challenges when working across disciplinary boundaries. The article identifies these ...

• TLF-IDA003481

Students create their own website to record and present their learning. As part of the process students respectfully and constructively comment on each other’s webpage.

• TLF-IDA003914

This activity invites students to use copper tape and surface-mount LEDs to make creative circuits on a flat surface, like a piece of paper. Students can make light-up greeting cards or create three-dimensional pop-up paper sculpture that have working lights in them. The activity includes a list of tools and materials required, ...

• TLF-IDA003919

This activity invites students to explore coding an animation using a computer, a webcam and Scratch programming. Interactive animations allow learners to animate their world and their own movements. Students use a tool called video sensing that uses motion picked up from the webcam to start and engage with digital animations ...

• TLF-IDA004550

In this investigative task, students explore how light energy sources are used for shadow theatre design and how forces are used to create movement in shadow puppets for entertainment and storytelling. Students investigate how forces and light energy create changes by students making, testing and presenting a model shadow ...

• TLF-IDA004614

In this lesson, students learn about industrial engineering and explore designing cardboard packaging nets that can be folded into innovative packages.

• TLF-IDA002239

This unit plan outlines how digital systems can be used to encourage fit and healthy activity. It is the first in a series of four resources.

• TLF-IDA002245

This article explores how the relationship between systems thinking and computational thinking would provide a conceptual basis for transformational change – change that considers the social and environmental impact of technology.

• TLF-IDA002266

Digital Technologies in Focus curriculum officers discuss a lesson about Artificial Intelligence with Simon Collier and a student.