Coding Ninjas create winning submissions
A huge congratulation to Brody S (age 9), Dylan K (age 10) and Charles K (age 11) for creating our winning ‘What’s Next’ coding stories.
Brody, Dylan and Charles each received a Raspberry Pi 4 for their coding genius!
Their task was to use their coding skills and innovative minds to create a digital story with the theme, ‘What’s Next.’
Using Scratch, the boys were able to program an interactive story and share their creations with an online community. Scratch is a fabulous, user-friendly and free programming language and online community that helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically and work collaboratively – all essential skills for life in the 21st century!
To check out their winning stories, click the links below.
Brody S (age 9)
What’s Next Zoo Story: An idea about the zoo
Charles K (age 11)
What’s Next?: A breaking News Report from Gobo, and showing what will happen when Covid 19 is over.
If you love creating stories, we’d love to hear from you. CoderDojoWA are offering prizes for interesting digital stories with the theme ‘What’s next’.
Use this competition as an opportunity to build your skills for the future, and what you see as the future. What’s next, now that we are coming out of social isolation? What’s next in your life, your family or community? Use your imagination and coding skills to create a digital story about anything you want.
Our mission is to get kids coding! Coding is a tool that lets you write your story with technology. CoderDojo is a world-wide open source social education movement oriented around running free computer coding clubs (Dojos) for young people aged 7-17 (Ninjas). CoderDojo WA is a regional network of CoderDojos in Western Australia. In 2013, the Fogarty Foundation committed to establishing the CoderDojo program in Western Australia by providing training, support and ongoing encouragement to the WA community.
It could be about a boy who gets to play in the playground again or a girl who goes to the library and gets out 100 books. Or it could be about a bird that is surprised to see so many people in the city again. It’s up to you.
There’s three major prizes for two age group divisions: Ninjas 11 years and under and: Ninjas 12 years and over. For the under 11 Ninjas, use Scratch to create a digital story from 2-5 minutes long about ‘What’s next’. For Ninja’s over 12 years of age stories can be made in Game Maker, Unity, Scratch etc., it’s up to you.
Story theme: ‘What’s Next’
Prizes: 3 x Raspberry Pi 4’s for each age division. Prizes will be awarded to the judges three favourite stories in each age division. All eligible entries will receive some Coder Dojo WA merchandise.
Who: Anyone interested in coding 7 – 17 years old
When: Closing date is the 19th June. Winners announced on Tuesday 23rd June
Created in: 11 years and under use Scratch, 12 years and older it’s your choice
Duration: 11 years and under = 2-5 mins, 12 years and older = 2-10 mins
Bonus points: 11 years and under for originality, 12 years and older for interactivity
Submissions need to adhere to the above guidelines and can be submitted through the link below.
If you have any questions about the competition or have difficulties submitting your project please contact coderdojowa@fogartyfoundation.org.au
Good luck Ninjas, we look forward to seeing what you come up with!
On Friday 13 December we hosted the CoderDojo WA end of year party for 2019. The event was held at Scitech, with over 200 of our community members attending for a fun night of presentations, science shows, prizes and pizza.
Thank you to all of our volunteers and the Ninjas, Mentors and Champions who presented their projects on the night and for all your wonderful help throughout the year. The CoderDojo WA community wouldnt be possible with your help.
Click here to see the photos from the event on our CoderDojo WA Facebook Group.
If you’re interested to learn more about CoderDojo WA and possibly starting or joining a dojo, follow the link below.
The Fogarty Foundation is aware that especially in these times of uncertainty, it is important that we stay connected and ensure that we keep all of the people with who we work, fully informed. Due to disruption caused by COVID-19 and taking into account advice and precautionary measures we are putting the following initiatives in action:
Fogarty EDvance
Face-to-face workshops for the remainder of Term 1 have been cancelled (26th and 30th March). We will be providing a couple of shorter sessions via Webinar and recordings. Over the coming couple of weeks, we will monitor how the Term 2 workshops will be run.
UWA Fogarty Scholars
The Scholars will continue with their studies, but we all non-essential meetings and Fogarty Conversations have been postponed for the time being. We will be sending out regular newsletters with updates, Scholars profiles and articles of interest including the importance of good leadership in times of crisis.
CoderDojo WA
It is up to individual dojos to decide whether they will hold regular dojos. As we expect that most will decide not to, we will be putting out ideas for projects and games for ninjas to work on at home, how to keep connected and (potentially) how to run a virtual dojo.
EDfutures
All community events have been postponed for the time being. We will be sending out an EDfutures newsletter soon and will be looking at ways for the community to keep connected and sharing ideas.
Challenging times always present opportunities. We know there has been an increasing focus on the potential of online working and learning. The imperative is now here. There should be significant progress in bringing the best of technology to make this a reality and open a new world of learning that is more self-directed, engaging and forward looking.
At the Fogarty Foundation we are keen to make the most of these opportunities and expect this will inform our operations going forward.
Keep well and engaged.
In the Sensing the Education Future project, we want to hear your stories from the places where the learning happens. We also know that sometimes those stories can be complex, and you may want more than words alone to help you tell them. To help give you a kickstart in bringing some of those deeper stories to the surface, we invite you to join us for an evening of hands-on creative engagement and powerful conversation.
In this workshop, we’ll use LEGO Serious Play to draw out those complex ideas. We’ll think with our hands, and use the LEGO bricks as the medium to build and express ourselves through storytelling and metaphor. We’ll play, chat and have a lot of fun! Pizza will also be provided (obvs!)
- WHEN: June 24th 4.30pm -7.30pm
- WHERE: The Platform, 3/256 Adelaide Terrace, Perth
- ABOUT FIREBIRD LEARNING AND LEGO SERIOUS PLAY:
Joel Birch founded Firebird Learning with the simple goal of creating opportunities to learn by connecting curiosity with creativity, working with learners of all ages, both inside and out of schools. An experienced educator and professional learning facilitator, he also works with teams and organisations to help them solve complex problems and communicate powerfully using LEGO Serious Play.
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY is a powerful, internationally-renowned method for facilitating workshops and meetings that harness the full range of perspective and creative expertise in your organisation to solve complex problems. The LEGO bricks are the medium for creative expression, a common language across backgrounds and perspectives. Participants build their ideas and express them by telling stories.
The What and How of preparing learners for tomorrow
With the speed of change making it impossible to predict the future, how do we even know if our students are ready for anything? This webinar invites you to join other EDfutures members in an interactive conversation about the evolving FutureWe Readiness Framework
This framework sets out to bring together ALL of the future-proof literacies learners (and everyone) will need to invent their own futures, and it’s also designed to plug directly into the ‘how’. Get a head start in understanding the big picture and mapping out your own journey in guiding the young people you are responsible for to success.
WHEN: March 4th 5:30pm – 6:30pm AWST
WHERE: The webinar will be hosted on WebEx Teams. You can download WebEx teams for free. You will be sent further details on how to join closer to the date of the Webinar.
ABOUT FUTUREWE:
FutureWe was founded by Jonathan Nalder after a 6 month research sabbatical in 2016 which left him shocked at how fast AI and new tech were changing the workforce. Instead of trying to predict what Education needs as a response, he determined to help learners know how to invent their own futures and be successful no matter what the tomorrow brings.
With help from now 300+ members in 17 countries, he has created and deployed solutions such as the bit.ly/future-mapping tool, ‘MakeXR.net’ lessons (AR, VR, 3D), and FirstonMars.net futures scenario across Australia and internationally to ensure everyone can be future ready.
Follow Jonathan @jnxyz
Kendall Clifton Short, Director at The Purpose:Fully
Kendall has worked in both traditional and non-traditional education for 18 years. Some of her most recent roles include running a remote, residential campus where 70 yr 9 girls would spend a term living on a working farm, living off the grid and learning about holistic sustainability; reshaping a community service program to a service learning model to embed purpose and learning, and align with broader College strategic goals; and spending up to 90 days leading tertiary students through the remote wilderness environments living leadership and environmental education.
Kendall is the Managing Director at The Purpose:fully. Kendall’s purpose:ful journey began with transformational experiences in the outdoors forcing her to redefine what she believed she was capable of. And awakening a desire to facilitate experiences that tested people’s self imposed limits and preserved the wilderness spaces essential to this transformation.
This has grown into a lifelong quest to understand how we can build systems and cultures that promote more sustainable behaviours and lifestyles.
Through the twisting, turning journey that is life and work, this has become the core belief that caring for people, communities and the environment is actually good for business, and good for humanity.
Her professional life has seen her questioning and helping people redefine what is possible: Leading adventures in pristine wilderness environments as a Course Leader for the National Outdoor Leadership School; redesigning sustainability educational to challenge the status quo as the Director of a remote secondary education campus; and challenging CEO’s on purposeful impact, and leadership assumptions and practice.
Fundamentally helping people and organisation reshape the way they think, connect and do business, so we can reshape the business world as a force for good.
And as a friend, wife and mother to three gorgeous balls of energy, she can often be found mucking around in the bush and wild spaces with her family, and asking difficult questions about how we can live more congruently with what we believe in and care deeply about.
EDfutures Community Night: How Values Shape Education
At this community night, we’re taking a deep dive into values and the impact they have in Australia’s education system. We will be exploring:
- What role have values played in arriving at the place we find ourselves in today?
- What have we been valuing, consciously or otherwise, and will those same values serve us in the emerging future?
- What other values might play a role in co-creating an education landscape that best serves the needs of tomorrow?
- How would we make that shift and make those values more explicit?
- How would we know they were leading us to the outcome we want?
This session will be facilitated by Kendall Clifton-Short of The Purpose:Fully. She works with organisations to imagine tomorrow’s future, and then embed purpose-driven strategy to create purposeful impact. As a passionate member of the EDfutures community, she’s excited to facilitate an exploration of the above questions with us all.
WHEN: November 6th 2018, 5.30pm – 8.30pm
WHERE: Lotteries House, City West
WHY: Community nights are an opportunity for us to welcome new members and a create some energy and understanding around EDfutures. Each community night will focus on a different theme.
- Learn about the work of EDfutures
- Meet other EDfutures members
- Hear about the work members are doing to challenge the status quo in education
- Have the opportunity to discuss your needs with the community
- Find collaborators in our community
- Build your capacity as an agent of change
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Kendall Clifton-Short
Kendall is the Managing Director at The Purpose:fully. Kendall’s purpose:ful journey began with transformational experiences in the outdoors forcing her to redefine what she believed she was capable of. And awakening a desire to facilitate experiences that tested people’s self imposed limits and preserved the wilderness spaces essential to this transformation.
This has grown into a lifelong quest to understand how we can build systems and cultures that promote more sustainable behaviours and lifestyles.
Through the twisting, turning journey that is life and work, this has become the core belief that caring for people, communities and the environment is actually good for business, and good for humanity.
Her professional life has seen her questioning and helping people redefine what is possible: Leading adventures in pristine wilderness environments as a Course Leader for the National Outdoor Leadership School; redesigning sustainability educational to challenge the status quo as the Director of a remote secondary education campus; and challenging CEO’s on purposeful impact, and leadership assumptions and practice.
Fundamentally helping people and organisation reshape the way they think, connect and do business, so we can reshape the business world as a force for good.
And as a friend, wife and mother to three gorgeous balls of energy, she can often be found mucking around in the bush and wild spaces with her family, and asking difficult questions about how we can live more congruently with what we believe in and care deeply about.
EDfutures Community Night: Scaling What Works
At this community night, we want to hear what you’re doing differently in education! This session will be facilitated by Sarah Dew, of Innovation Unit, London, where she grows new solutions to complex problems. With years of experience in this field, they’ve developed a model for what it takes to bring a great solution to scale.
To learn how to apply this model, we want to hear about your projects and ideas. What’s stopping you from growing and scaling your innovation? What’s working so well that you wish everyone was doing it? Tell us about it when you register for the event, and yours could be one of the ideas we workshop on the night.
WHEN: October 10th 2018, 5.30pm – 8.30pm
WHERE: Lotteries House, City West
WHY: Community nights are an opportunity for us to welcome new members and a create some energy and understanding around EDfutures. Each community night will focus on a different theme.
- Learn about the work of EDfutures
- Meet other EDfutures members
- Hear about the work members are doing to challenge the status quo in education
- Have the opportunity to discuss your needs with the community
- Find collaborators in our community
- Build your capacity as an agent of change
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Sarah Dew 
Sarah is a Project Lead at Innovation Unit, with particular expertise in scaling innovation, and health and social care. Sarah is currently leading a piece of work for the Learning and Work Institute and the Work and Health Unit (jointly sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health) to co-design a new programme of support for people who are long term unemployed with multiple health conditions.
Sarah is an expert advisor on the evaluation of the Health Foundation’s Exploring Social Franchising programme, which is being led by Cordis Bright. To the evaluation, Sarah brings her insight on how to scale innovation successfully in the NHS. This is informed in part by the report Against the Odds: successfully scaling innovation in the NHS which she co-authored for the Health Foundation, and by her work with the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA).
Previously, Sarah was part of the team working on Better Endings – a year long innovation programme for end of life care in Lambeth and Southwark supported by Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity. Sarah led the research to understand the health and social care context for end of life care, and led the development of Neighbourhood Care – prototyping a new model of community based support for isolated individuals at the end of life.
Harvard’s Project Zero – Critical and Creative Thinking
Put the General Capabilities into action with global educational leader Mark Church from Harvard’s Project Zero. This event is a half day workshop where participants will explore how making thinking visible and thinking routines can support students developing their critical and creative thinking skills.
- WHEN: Wednesday September 5th 1 – 5pm
- WHERE: University of Western Australia, Graduate School of Education, Nedlands Campus, Room G8.
- ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Mark Church
Mark Church works with educators throughout the world striving to create cultures of thinking in their classrooms and schools.
Mark challenges teachers to foster thinking dispositions in students in service of deep understanding. He invites teachers to promote a discourse of thinking in their classrooms that communicates value for student sense-making. Mark encourages teachers to make their classroom environments rich with the documents of student thinking processes.
Mark is currently a consultant with Harvard Project Zero’s Making Thinking Visible and Cultures of Thinking initiatives worldwide, drawing upon his own classroom teaching experience and from the perspectives he has gained working with educators throughout North America, Australia, Asia, and Europe. Mark enjoys helping teachers examine opportunities for student thoughtfulness, use thinking routines as supports and scaffolds, interact with students in ways that demonstrate interest in and respect for students’ thinking, and send clear expectations about the importance and value of thinking in learning.
Together with Ron Ritchhart and Karin Morrison, Mark is co-author of the book Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners (Jossey-Bass, 2011).
- ABOUT HARVARD’S PROJECT ZERO:
Founded by philosopher Nelson Goodman at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1967, Project Zero began with a focus on understanding learning in and through the arts. Over the years, PZ has continued their inquiry into the arts and arts education, while drawing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to examine fundamental questions of human expression and development. PZ research endeavors are marked by a passion for the big questions, a passion for the conceptual, a passion for the interdisciplinary, a passion for the full range of human development, and a passion for the arts.
Today Project Zero is an intellectual wellspring, nourishing inquiry into the complexity of human potentials – intelligence, understanding, thinking, creativity, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural thinking, ethics – and exploring sustainable ways to support them across multiple and diverse contexts. Anchored in the arts and humanities, and with a commitment to melding theory and practice, PZ continues to work towards a more enlightened educational process and system that prepares learners well for the world that they will live, work and develop in.
- ABOUT SCHOOLS OF THINKING:
Schools of Thinking was born of a shared belief in the power of paying attention to students’ thinking to facilitate deeper learning, understanding and connection to knowledge. SoT seek to build upon and share the passion of educators for innovative practice leading to powerful opportunities for students by:
- Promoting best practice for the teaching of thinking
- Fostering deep thinking and connected learning
- Sharing resources and experiences
- Organising professional learning for teachers and leaders
- Conducting and applying research
- Providing outreach and networking for educators
- Advocating for a creative curriculum
SoT was founded by a group of dedicated teachers and school administrators. They are a not-for-profit organisation, and board members work on a voluntary basis to run events, write blogs, create resources and advocate for innovative curricula in the hope of inspiring other teachers to put students’ thinking at the forefront of their daily practice.