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I am currently a grade 1 teacher and I love new technology. My go to is Google and I love seeing my kids faces light up when I use technology in the classroom. I am looking forward to using technology more effectively in my classroom and learning new skills.

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SO, I'm going back filling in some of the activities I didn't finish during the term - reading some familiar names here. Currently HOC @ Crows Nest State School a lovely little P-10 outside Toowoomba, early childhood teacher who joined PDA trial in 2004, ICT PL trial  in 2006, 2007 AF Ped Lic and many things along the way

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SO, I'm going back filling in some of the activities I didn't finish during the term - reading some familiar names here. Currently HOC @ Crows Nest State School a lovely little P-10 outside Toowoomba, early childhood teacher who joined PDA trial in 2004, ICT PL trial  in 2006, 2007 AF Ped Lic and many things along the way

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A life-long obsession with gadgets, technology and design sits behind my teaching whether it be year 4 Engish or Junior Secondary math. Always keen to try something new.

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I am a primary school teachers teaching in a small school with multi age students.  I am keen to learn more about Digital Technologies and engage enthusiastic students at my school to participate in ICT activities.

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I am a primary school teachers teaching in a small school with multi age students.  I am keen to learn more about Digital Technologies and engage enthusiastic students at my school to participate in ICT activities.

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I am a primary school teachers teaching in a small school with multi age students.  I am keen to learn more about Digital Technologies and engage enthusiastic students at my school to participate in ICT activities as well as support other staff and classroom teachers with the use of Digital Technologies in their classrooms.

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Sorry I'm so late in joining... ended up in hospital and have had moving house and school audit on top of all of that! AARRGG! I currently teach 5/6 and Special Needs in a small school with very limited resources. I've been in the world of education for around 16 years now and find that you can never know enough.
I was the crazy one to put up my hand not just for my constantly enquiring mind, but also because I can see some real potential in several of our students and would love to be able to help them become all they can! I'm really looking forwards to this journey with you.

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I teach Grade 4 and I am very excited about digital technologies and ICT. I currently run the robotics club at our school and I see daily the enthusiasm and passion that students have in the areas of IT, Coding and Robotics. I am really looking forward to discovering new ways to further integrate IT into my pedagogy and allow my class and future classes the opportunity to experience coding and problem solving.

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Hello. Starting a tad late. Really enjoyed the comment in the intro by Jason "Don't teach tools for the sake of teaching tools. ICT Integration is tricky though I think, unless all teachers are upskilled. Looking forward to learning how to simply and meaningfully teach ICT's.

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I am an ICT Coordinator at Moranbah SS and I run a website to support teachers who use iPads for teaching and learning. Everyday I run around the school solving problems and when I get home I love answering questions from teachers all over the world. TECH EDUCATION ROCKS!!

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I'm a third year high school teacher. I've never taught ICT and want to learn more about Digital Technologies as I can see this being the future for many careers and education programs.

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My current role is eLearning Coordinator in a primary school. I work in a BYOD school with both iPads and Windows devices. I have always been interested in ICT. I am keen to develop a greater understanding of how to integrate the Digital Technologies curriculum into our current curriculum and assist my teachers to embrace this new curriculum and not see it as another 'add on' in an already crowded curriculum.

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I am a Junior Secondary teacher at a Distance Education (online) school in Brisbane. Always on the look out for new  ways to translate students innate skills and interests in Technology into real world projects and outcomes across all subject areas

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I am a PE teacher 2 days a week and nct teacher for 3 days. Part of my nct role is to help with the introduction of the digital technologies curriculum into the school.

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I teach Grade 4 in an iPad school. Up until now I have felt that I am 'teaching tools for the sake of teaching tools'. I'm looking forward to learning how to change this through STEMS based project learning.

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I teach Grade 4 in an iPad school. Up until now I have felt that I am 'teaching tools for the sake of teaching tools'. I'm looking forward to learning how to change this through STEMS based project learning.

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Kate

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I teach Year 6 in Regional Queensland. I want to be on the front foot of Digital Technologies so I enrolled in this course. I believe Digital Technologies will become a major part of teaching in the future.

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Sandra
I am currently working as a TL in a lovely metro primary school with 360 students. I have always been really interested in using technology in the classroom and believe it is a powerful tool for both teaching and learning. I am excited to see the development of the  Digital Technologies curriculum and look forward to learning more .

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I am HoD ICT and eLearning at Cairns School of Distance Education. I am actively involved in teaching and promoting ICT in the Far North QLD region. My passion is ensuring that students in rural and remote areas have access to quality programs.

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I am a year 3 teacher who has always held a strong belief in the value of digital pedagogy to transform the way students engage and interact with their learning. After a few years spent with a focus on looking after my young family, I feel a bit 'left behind' with the new digital technologies curriculum. I am keen to up-skill myself so my students can be more actively engaging in digital design and creative solutions.

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I am a grade 1 teacher and started on this journey when my principal suggested I do it to obtain my senior teacher classification. At first I was nervous because I have never really been into ICT and technology. However, I am now so excited about the possibilities for both my students and myself. I love how engaged the children become and you can see their brains thinking as they work. 

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I am a grade 1 teacher and started on this journey when my principal suggested I do it to obtain my senior teacher classification. At first I was nervous because I have never really been into ICT and technology. However, I am now so excited about the possibilities for both my students and myself. I love how engaged the children become and you can see their brains thinking as they work. 

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Carmen

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I am a grade 3 teacher. I don't know a great deal about coding or robotics. I am excited to be doing this course so that I can improve my knowledge and confidence around teaching Digital Technologies and hopefully
encourage students and teachers.

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I'm a Year 1 teacher in North Queensland. At this stage, I'm not overly confident teaching digital technologies. Over my teaching career, I had really only taught basic computer skills until I learnt about BeeBots this year. I'm looking forward to learning many more skills over the next few weeks.

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I'm a high school teacher currently teaching IT and keen to learn how I can deliver the DT course better.

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I am currently a Learning Support Teacher who works with all year levels within our school from Prep to Year 6. I've been interested and involved with ICT's and Technology since my days at college when we programmed with punch cards. I'm looking forward to the Digital Technologies journey that I'm going in this course.

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My kids know more than me when it comes to digital technology so I thought it was about time to step up. If my confidence and knowledge improves then so does their fun.

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I am a beginning teacher/librarian but have been teaching film and new media and media studies for the past 13 years. I'm keen to learn more on design thinking .

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The "Four Corners" program recently aired re Australians losing 40% of work to automation in the next 10-15 years really woke me up. Students need this education to survive the modern world. However, what happens to those poor devils who are not the brightest!? Where/what are the "legal" avenues of work for them?

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I have been teaching Robotics in Years 7-9 for the last 3 years and now oversee our Year 10 program.  We are in our second year of competing in the FLL series.

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I am a grade 6 teacher in Central Queensland. I am excited to be learning how to teach digital technologies to my students.

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I am a HOC introducing Digital Technology curriculum into my school next year. I am looking at building my confidence in Digital Technologies

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I am the HOD for Technologies. I have Masters in Educational Technology. Currently I teach Prep to Y6 in BeeBots, Ozobots, Scratch, Makey Makey, LittleBits and Arduino!

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Primary school teacher for many years!  I love what technology can do for kids. I just need to know how to use them. :)

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I'm a primary teacher who is currently working in SEP.  Looking forward to learning more about how people make this all work on an organisation level at schools!

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I am currently teaching in a P-12 school in rural QLD. I teach across a number of year levels and teaching areas. I am hoping to develop a better understanding and ability to integrate digital technology across a range of areas

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I am a Year 1 classroom teacher beginning the journey of engaging digital tech with my students as a part of our everyday in the classroom.

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I am a Year 5 teacher and am very nervous but excited to be taking on this learning about digital technologies and our new curriculum.

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I am a primary school teacher currently teaching Year 5. I am keen to learn more about digital technologies and to build my skill base so I can pass this on to my students. STEM is a baby at my current school.

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Erin
Hi, I'm HOD eLearning and Info Services at a public Brisbane school and am  really interested in the recommended direction for IT these days. I'm starting a Codebug project with my 7s based on project based learning with a real-world application for the Codebug, so really happy to see Jason and Glenn speaking about this!

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Hi, I love using new technologies in my classroom and my students love it too.
I am looking forward to expanding my knowledge in the coding area.

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I am the only Teacher-Librarian  in a P-12 school of 2600students + associated staff. I'm really time poor.  However,  I really enjoy all things digital and am looking forward to undertaking the digital technologies modules in order to build my STEM teaching skilland find some shortcuts!

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I teach English and Legal Studies,  but teach Extension Plus English. At Uni, many years ago, I was quite interested in Technology and it was an area I studied, but only had the chance to teach it in my first two years. Our STEM program may enable me to delve in and teach this great work again.

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Have been teaching for 16 years, mostly in high school. Originally majored in computing as an undergraduate, however have never formally taught IT apart from picking up the odd junior IT or Certificate class. Instead ended up specialising in RE/SOR and SOSE. Whilst I have remained "tech savy" and very comfortable incorporating ITC's in my teaching

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I am a teaching Principal in a remote school in Far North Qld. I am interested in digital technologies and have used several over  the past. I am doing this subject to see what is new and what I can pass on to the students.

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I an SEP teacher at a school in Ipswich. I manage 200 iPads across the school with the aim of improving student outcomes. I also run a robotics programme after school to extend some of our more talented students.

I am currently investigating hardware and software platforms to provide an interesting and rewarding experience for students and professional development for teachers as digital technologies become imbedded out classrooms.

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I am a maths/science teacher. Currently teaching a STEM unit to a year8 Science class called Create4space developed by Quberider.

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I am just entering my second year of teaching and I am currently teaching various IT subjects in my school. I'm looking forward to aligning our existing subjects with the Digital Technologies Curriculum

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I am a HOD of Junior Secondary and have taught Business and Maths for the past 7 years. I am looking to gain further information on STEM and digital technologies and methods to improve student engagement.

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I have very limited knowledge and I am quite apprehensive about this experience but took it on because I feel it is important to have a better understanding and hopefully be able to bring some excitement to the kids after developing my knowledge and skills

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I am a Teacher-Librarian at a Primary school.  I have been teaching students the use of various ICT tools and am looking forward to flipping my focus to better reflect an inquiry approach to learning.  I am not very experienced at all with coding, programming etc. and we have not, as yet, purchased any specific STEM tools e.g. code bugs etc.  The learning curve is going to be quite steep, however, it is the next necessary step for myself as a professional, and for our school.

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I'm doing STEM lessons with P-Y2 students.  Currently using Beebots, Scratch Jnr and different Lego kits to engage students.  I have an interest in technology so am looking to learn new skills.

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I am teaching Year 1 at a school in North Queensland. Our school is introducing digital technologies and I was one of the teachers who volunteered to implement it first. I am excited to gain confidence and becoming comfortable using the digital technologies curriculum. I look forward to discovering new ways or working and thinking.

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I'm a year 5/6 teacher in a small school.  I am keen to integrate digital technologies through all teaching areas.

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My IT related teaching to date mainly involves teaching relevant computer "skills" to secondary students who have little or no experience with technology (e.g. refugees).

I look forward to discovering ways that the school can draw on the new curriculum to enhance learning. I am particularly interested in seeing how using hardware/software combinations can be used to solve problems.

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I have been teaching for 16 years. I am currently in a 2/3 class in a small, rural P-12 school with very limited resources in the way of digital technologies. I have experience in Prep teaching children how to make simple movies and upload their work using an app to our class blog. I have never worked in a school with a strong STEM focus so am a little nervous but certainly keen to learn more.

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Hey, I'm Kristie and a year 2 teacher. Our school has begun the journey of introducing digital technologies and we were lucky enough to have a term of DigiTec using Scratch. Students were so engaged and continued to request when were they going again. We have now started using BeeBots in the classroom and students level of engagement is continuing to grow. My knowledge of this area is minimal and I am learning as I go and wanting to gain a greater understanding of what it can offer my students. 

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Hey, I'm Kristie and a year 2 teacher. Our school has begun the journey of introducing digital technologies and we were lucky enough to have a term of DigiTec using Scratch. Students were so engaged and continued to request when were they going again. We have now started using BeeBots in the classroom and students level of engagement is continuing to grow. My knowledge of this area is minimal and I am learning as I go and wanting to gain a greater understanding of what it can offer my students. 

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I am teaching Year 6 and need to broaden my understanding, gain confidence and become comfortable with the technology curriculum

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I'm currently a Junior Secondary Maths and Science teacher. I have been teaching for 7 years and spent 5 of those years teaching in a P-7 school. I'm enjoying the "move to high school" and looking to upskill my current  Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Digital Technology

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Hi everyone!
I am in my 3rd year of teaching, currently working in North Qld as a high school music teacher. I know very little about digital technologies but am really keen to learn!

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I am the Teacher Librarian and ICT Teacher at a school with 180 students. I help manage 110 iPads and plan with teachers to integrate iPads and digital technologies into their classrooms.
This year we have begun coding, we have had a terrific response from the students.
We have also introduced lego Wedo 2.0 this term.
I am very excited by the new digital technologies curriculum and Stem and look forward to learning more.

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I have recently become a teaching principal in a very small rural school teaching Prep - Year 6.  Prior to that I had mostly taught Years 4-7.  I became a regional trainer for XO Computers and I ran clubs for Lego WeDo using Scratch and also an XO Technician program where students helped repair, reimage and install apps on to XO computers. I am really interested in getting into 3D Printing and using robotics.

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I am Science HOD and we have introduced robotics units into our & - 10 Science classes.  Keen to learn more and develop my skills so I can stay ahead of the kids!!!

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This is my first year teaching Year One. I have been employed with EQ for six years in a variety of roles.  While I am quite intimidated at the thought of this course, I feel it is imperative to have the skills to teach and engage students in this area of the curriculum.

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I am teacher librarian at a primary school. I have been asked to take on the roll of digital technologies specialist teacher P-6.
I would describe myself as technophobic, so need lots of help!

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I am currently the Digital Technologies Specialist teacher at my school. I am also the elearning coordinator. I have learned heaps this year, but I am keen to be on top of my game and I am aware that I have some knowledge gaps to fill.

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I have been a keen user of ict's with my primary classes since I began teaching. This year I commenced a role as a Digital Technology specialist teacher. I now teach all studentsat  my school. I have enjoyed teaching coding and simple robotics, but I want to fast track my learning I this area.

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I am currently teaching Year 2. I have some prior knowledge of coding from my high school years but so much has changed! I have been working with our school's ICT teacher on how to effectively integrate coding into the classroom and am interested in learning more. I am interested in the best ways to use technology to engage my class as a whole and also to support those students on ICP's both above and below their current year level.

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I am a special education teacher. I have been teaching for 30yrs. I don't know much about digital technologies and so i saw this course as an opportunity to upskill myself.

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I am a secondary teacher teaching years 9 to 12 and enjoy IT and want to embed coding as a subject.

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I am currently teaching Year 6 and I am really interested in learning more about the STEM approach. At my school this year we have been lucky to have our classes taught by a technology guru in coding - however I don't feel confident to be able to teach it to my own class. So looking forward to hopefully build this up during this course.

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Teaching year 2.  I have been teaching for 10 years.  Enjoy teaching technologies to students and am always surprised at how quickly they learn and change what I have taught.  Looking forward to upskilling.

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I am a 5/6 teacher and one day a fortnight ICT Coach at my small school. My focus for the past two years has been skilling staff in ICT tools (implementing ipad pods, edstudios, some robotics & coding etc) but I really want to shift our school to a digital technology focus,
as I believe this is the way forward for our students.

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My name is Josie and I am an upper primary school teacher.  I am currently teaching year 6 but have taught all upper level classes. I love all types of technology and believe it is really important that we teach our student about all aspects of technology because it will be their future.

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My teaching of digital technologies is currently about making the curriculum more accessible to my SEP class. I have early years so I'm lucky to be able to start teaching my students to integrate and engage with ICT's as a positive tool from the very start.

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My name is Michael and I have taught senior (8-12) ICT for 9 years without any formal qualifications or training. 

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My name is Michael and I have taught senior (8-12) ICT for 9 years without any formal qualifications or training. 

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Tammy
I am a Year 6 teacher that enjoys working with ICT. I am really excited with the implementation of the new Digital Curriculum. I have played around with robotics and coding (Scratch) and am looking to become more confident with the new areas of the curriculum.

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I am a Year 1 teacher with a big interest in enhancing my  own learning so that I can help our future generations. I have minimal understanding but I am looking forward to learning more about digital technologies.

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I am a Year 4 teacher and in the past have been an ICT teacher and Technology teacher.  I have been involved in QSITE's digital champion project 2 years ago and what to freshen up my skills to create some awesome projects to work with students on.

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I'm an early childhood trained teacher, teaching Year 4 teacher at a Distance Ed school in Central Queensland, and this is my second year as a teacher at EQ. In my role we teach via teleconferencing and Collaborate, as well as using Blackboard virtual classrooms. I feel confident in my ability to incorporate fairly basic ICTs across the curriculum (computers, software, iPads, apps for creation, etc.), but am less confident teaching the actual digital technologies curriculum. I'm particularly interested in coding and robotics as these are two areas that I don't have any experience in (but I can see how important these areas are to our students!).

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Andrew.  I'm an early childhood trained teacher and spent the first half of my teaching career teaching year 1 to year 3. I actually resigned for a decade and spent that time working in the online marketing field, delivering online courses, producing video, audio and PDF content, running webinars, and setting up and maintaining a wide variety of membership based websites. I've come back to teaching and am lucky enough to be teaching STEM based courses in an online virtual environment. 

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Andrew.  I'm an early childhood trained teacher and spent the first half of my teaching career teaching year 1 to year 3. I actually resigned for a decade and spent that time working in the online marketing field, delivering online courses, producing video, audio and PDF content, running webinars, and setting up and maintaining a wide variety of membership based websites. I've come back to teaching and am lucky enough to be teaching STEM based courses in an online virtual environment. 

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Secondary English/Humanities teacher with a passion for elearning and digital pedagogies. Limited experience with coding and design thinking, so very keen to explore.

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I am currently a fulltime multi-age teacher at a school in North Queensland.  I enjoy getting my students engaged with digital technologies to enhance and share their learning.  I am confident teaching with and using ICT's and have recently started teaching my students to code simple games using scratch.  I look forward to learning how to use digital technologies in the new curriculum area.

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My name is Nisha.  I started my teaching in the area of computers and ran the school computer system for a few years.  For the last 10 years I have been teaching in different KLA's, so am really behind in my computer skills.  I am keen to learn more coding skills as last time I did coding  was in the early 90's.

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I am the ICT Coordinator at a primary school helping classroom teachers navigate their way through the new digitech curriculum

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Teaching secondary for a while now. Have some understanding of technology teaching but only a little. I am very keen to learn more ways to incorporate technology into the classroom.

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I am currently Deputy Principal, however I am a keen participant in developing my knowledge and having a go at a variety of Digital Technologies.

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Small School Principal.
Looking forward to using new knowledge and skills in my multi-age classroom to engage and challenge students with new digital technologies.

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Looking forwarding to learning the new digital technologies curriculum

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Long time teacher with a number of morphs along the way including from no tech to much tech. Have enjoyed working with students in 1:1 environment for 14 years and seeing what works and not and how tech engages and not. Always learning. Always changing. Always interesting.

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We do a lot now but don't fully realise the skills we are providing that sets them up for higher year levels.  It is unfortunate that the value of Inquiry based play is undervalued in our current curriculum.

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I am currently teaching years 8 to 12 in ICT and Business. I have a background in programming and am passionate about teaching kids to code.

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TRACEY: As a teacher of a multi-age class in a small school with limited internet finding appropriate and engaging Digital Technologies is difficult as my knowledge is very limited.

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TRACEY: As a teacher of a multi-age class in a small school with limited internet finding appropriate and engaging Digital Technologies is difficult as my knowledge is very limited.

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I currently teach a BYO Macbook class -Year 5. This is my first year with a BYOD so keen to learn new skills and understand the Digital Technologies Curriculum.

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I am a High School English, Business and Computing teacher. I have been teaching for 13 years in a remote and rural school. Over the last few years our computing subjects have seen a gradual reduction in numbers. I am really excited to increase my knowledge base about Digital Technologies in order to engage students in this increasing important growth area.

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I have been teaching for 4 years and enjoy learning about new technologies that I can introduce into my teaching.  I like the idea of project based learning and look forward to seeing how I can integrate across the learning areas.

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(ex) IT specialist turned teacher. Very passionate about all types of emerging technologies. Currently on a digital technologies journey with our school and learning something new by the minute. Love watching others work and learning from them about the wonderful world of tomorrow :-)

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I am a science teacher with a passion for students being creators of technology.  I use flipped learning pedagogies to free up class time for problem and project based learning.  I have not had much exposure to teaching digital technologies as yet.

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I have been teaching for many years. I trained as a Secondary Teacher but now teach in a P-10 school where I am expected to teach down to Year 4. The new Digital Technologies area is what I would like to know more about and how to teach this area to the younger children when I have them for only one lesson per week (probably around 30 minutes).

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Jackie
I am a high school teacher with a business background.  My toes are dipping into a more formalised IT world.

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I have been teaching for 12 years. 2 years ago I moved from Primary to High School. I have been mucking around with different ways to bring digital technologies into the classroom. I am looking forward to some structured, guided learning rather on this subject and am excited at the prospect of being able to teach it with confidence.

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I am teaching Prep and I am very interested in teaching infants digital technology.  For the first time, I have a Prep class with BYO iPads.  I am keen to learn more about digital technology because I can see it is the way of the future.

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I am currently in a HOC:STEM role in a primary setting.  I have some knowledge around digital technologies and am excited about this new subject.  I hope to extend my understanding so that I can support teachers at my site in delivering not only the digital technologies curriculum but purposefully integrating key ideas of digital technologies in other learning areas.