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Australian Computing Academy | Helping teachers implement the Digital Technologies Curriculum in classrooms around the country | Australian Computing Academy

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Helping teachers implement the Digital Technologies Curriculum in classrooms around the country

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Support for the Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies with lesson plans, case studies, advice for school leaders, activities for students and for families. See links to the digital technologies industry events and programs. Get support with the development of computational thinking and coding skills in Australian students.

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Webinars

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DT- Hub Webinars | Digital Technologies Hub

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View the webinars to increase your content knowledge, find out about topical issues and approaches related to implementing Digital Technologies in your school.

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Free activities for classroom or home

CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.

The activities introduce students to Computational Thinking through concepts such as binary numbers, algorithms and data compression, separated from the distractions and technical details of having to use computers. Importantly, no programming is required to engage with these ideas!

CS Unplugged is suitable for people of all ages, from elementary school to seniors, and from many countries and backgrounds. Unplugged has been used around the world for over twenty years, in classrooms, science centers, homes, and even for holiday events in a park!

The material is available free of charge, and is shared under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence, which makes it easy to copy, adapt and share it.

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Computer Science Unplugged ← Computer Science... without a computer!

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CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce students to Computational Thinking through concepts such as binary numbers, algorithms and data compression, separated from the distractions and technical details of having to use computers.

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CS Unplugged is a collection of free teaching material that teaches Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.

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The University of Adelaide provides quality service and support to its community through the efforts of a range of departments. This site includes academic faculties, research centres, learning support and administrative departments.

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Student access

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Computer Science Field Guide - Computer Science Field Guide

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Because this textbook is online it's easy for us to update it. Please use this form for any form of feedback, from tiny obvious suggestions to broad observations. We love getting positive feedback too (and it helps us to get support for this work).

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What is involved?

The residential camps enable the students to explore all aspects of ICT through guest lectures, interactive sessions, practicals and field trips. The camps occur in the January and July school holidays and mark the start and end of the program.

The mentoring program sees each student matched with a mentor recruited from a variety of ICT backgrounds. Together they construct personal goals for the student. This might include discussing study options and career pathways, undertaking further extension work with support from their mentor, developing ideas based on learnings from the camp or working on a project.

digIT is an invitational program. Students are invited based on their performance in the Australian Mathematics Competition and the Computational and Algorithmic Thinking competition, or by recommendation from their teacher. The program will be particularly targeted towards students under-represented in ICT or STEM subjects in years 8 and 9, who are disadvantaged, rural/remote and/or Indigenous.

For more information view the FAQs, or contact Rian Kent on digIT@amt.edu.au or phone 02 62012138.

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The residential camps enable the students to explore all aspects of ICT through guest lectures, interactive sessions, practicals and field trips. The camps occur in the January and July school holidays and mark the start and end of the program. The mentoring program sees each student matched with a mentor recruited from a variety of ICT backgrounds.

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The competition's alignment with the school curriculum enables students to apply what they learn in their ICT/Digital Technologies classroom to develop a technology related project of their choice. At the judging event, students have the opportunity to present their project to a judging panel of academia, industry partners and ICT professionals. Each project is assessed on the criteria of creativity, uniqueness, quality, level of difficulty and project documentation.

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The competition's alignment with the school curriculum enables students to apply what they learn in their ICT/Digital Technologies classroom to develop a technology related project of their choice. At the judging event, students have the opportunity to present their project to a judging panel of academia, industry partners and ICT professionals.

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National Computer Science School - Summer School

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The National Computer Science School (NCSS) is a ten day summer school for students going into years 11 and 12. NCSS brings together talented young people from around Australia for an intensive course of computer programming and website development in the School of IT at the University of Sydney.

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Teacher access

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Love programming or want to learn? We'll teach you how to program from scratch, while you compete with high school students from around the world! Register now!

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What is GPN? - Girls' Programming Network

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Let your inbox help you discover our best projects, classes, and contests. Instructables will help you learn how to make anything!

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Bebras is an international student challenge whose goal is to promote computational thinking for teachers and students (ages 8-17 / school years 3-12). Bebras is aligned with and supports Information and Communication Technology (ICT) curricula across Australia. Bebras Australia is run by CSIRO under the Digital Careers program, funded by the Australian Government. It's a great way to get students interested and participating in information and communication technology (ICT) which could lead to an interest in pursuing a career in the exciting ICT industry!

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Bebras is an international student challenge whose goal is to promote computational thinking for teachers and students (ages 8-17 / school years 3-12). Bebras is aligned with and supports Information and Communication Technology (ICT) curricula across Australia. Bebras Australia is run by CSIRO under the Digital Careers program, funded by the Australian Government.

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2018's STEM Learning Conference is centered around the 'how to' of STEM. The focus is on STEM in the classroom by giving teachers and school leaders ideas that will help them implement their own school's STEM initiatives and stimulating thinking and discussions about the importance of STEM to our futures

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Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Professionals in Schools (formerly Scientists and Mathematicians (and ICT Professionals) in Schools) is a national volunteer program that facilitates partnerships between schools and industry to bring real STEM into the classroom.