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We hope you had a restful break and peaceful Christmas these past few weeks. The new school year is starting, and we would like to draw your attention to our resources to support you in your professional development and teaching, be it remote or in the classroom.
Artificial Intelligence
The self-paced Google grant-funded teacher PD continues to be freely available until Mach 31, 2022. To enrol, visit www.dti-classroom.com.au.
The online version contains all the great content from the workshops we ran last year, with links to resources and the tools we used. Be it the Google Teachable Machine, MyComputerBrain, Replit, videos or PDFs: Everything you need to get started with AI in the classroom is there with detailed step by step instructions.
My Computer Brain
We have polished our online course system over the holidays, improving usability. It has engaging interactive courses for students on Artificial Intelligence, AI Robotics, Binary Numbers, How to Build a CPU, Computer Graphics, Algorithms Logic, and more. You can purchase student licenses from as little as $5 per student for a single course, or $10 for all courses for 3 months. Head over to MyComputerBrain to start exploring. As a registered teacher, head over to the shop to create student accounts.
B4 Computer Kits
Our physical computing kits have modules that represent core functions of a computer, such as binary counting, adding, memory, graphics, etc. With these, students undertake experiments which lead to increasingly sophisticated hardware and software arrangements.
The B4 operates at human speed and allows students to explore what is generally hidden inside the black box of their smartphones, tablets or laptops. Each B4 kit comes with lesson plans jointly written by computing experts and teachers and online videos containing a sequence of exciting experiments for the learner. The B4 Computer Kits have their virtual counterparts on My Computer Brain. Hear from the fantastic teachers Maree and Stephen from Galen Catholic College in Vic about their experiences with the B4 and how they use it. Their video is here. To check pricing and purchase kits, head over to the shop.
From the Digital Technologies Institute team, we wish you a wonderful and hopefully a bit less crazy year. Please contact us if you have any queries or if we can be of any help.
We've had a tremendous response on the Google-grant-funded Artificial Intelligence Workshop Series for primary, secondary and pre-service teachers, run by QSITE and the Digital Technologies Institute. Due to COVID related lockdowns and travel restrictions we had to limit the location of the workshops to South-East Queensland. However, we had many teachers from interstate and rural and remote areas enquire about a workshop in their vicinity.
In response, we created an online version of the workshop for teachers from all around the country. The workshop is free until Mach 31, 2022. To enrol, go to here to visit www.dti-classroom.com.au.
The online version contains all the great content from the F2F workshop, links to resources and embeds the tools we use. Be it the Google Teachable Machine, MyComputerBrain, Replit, videos or PDFs. Everything you need to get started with AI in the classroom is there with detailed step by step instructions.
To get started, create an account by selecting the "Log In" button in the top right hand corner.
The "Log In" button takes you to the following page.
Here you can choose to create an account or log in with an already existing account. For convenience you may choose to log in and authenticate with Facebook or Google (this process is handled outside of our service with the respective entity. We do not receive your password).
You can access the online workshop once you have created your account and are logged in (you should see your name in the top right hand corner where "Log In" used to be).
Open the Online Course or click on the "Online Courses" button on the page and select the Artificial Intelligence Workshop.
Once enrolled, you can view the course. It should look something like this:
Each drop down menu is a module in the course and will cover a different aspect of Artificial Intelligence. When you click on a module, you'll see that it consists of a collection of steps.
Clicking on a step will bring you to a new page with the course content for that step.
That's all you need to know to get started with our online Artificial Intelligence Workshop. We've included some screenshots of the course below for you to look forward to.
The MyComputerBrain platform is an excellent tool to help teach Artificial Intelligence in classrooms. This blog post is intended as a guide for Teachers to getting started with the platform and creating student accounts.
Welcome to our AI and Robotics course, which is our latest creation at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and robotics and an interactive and easy first step into the amazing world of AI.
First things first, we will need to login (or create a free teacher account).
Once you are logged in, navigate to the "Shop" by navigating into the "Account" page and selecting the "Shop" tab.
In the shop, you should see the following:
For this example we will create a single Student Account for the 6-Month Introduction to AI & Robotics Course.
Once added to cart, you will be able to checkout. We will ask your Billing Information and Card Information. The checkout is handled by Stripe, so we do not see or store your card details.
Teacher Portal - Viewing Accounts
If you navigate back to the "My Students" tab, you should see your new Student.
Here you will see the Students' Usernames and Passwords to login and use the service. We also have a field where you can enter the first and/or last name of the Student, however, this is entirely optional.
Student Progress
Once you give the Student their account details and they log in, they can head on over to the course and work through the experiments.
While your student is working on the experiments, you can view their progress by selecting the "Student Progress" tab in your Account.
Here you will be able to see where students are up to in their course, if they are stuck and generate course certificates.
As you may have noticed, the student's name is currently their username. If you have set the student's name in the "My Students" tab (by entering the information in the table and clicking "Save"), the student's name will instead appear.
Hopefully this post has made it easier for you to setup Student Accounts and get teaching faster. Till next time!
