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Coding education in schools
Coding education in schools: crucial as English and Maths - or is it?
...The teaching of digital literacy in the classroom is a global education trend on the rise. The inclusion of "coding" – the algorithmic language of computers – in school curriculums around the world exemplifies a shift away from the focus on instructing children how to use computers, applications and programs towards teaching them about how computers are built, how they work, and how to instruct their function and behaviour through coding.
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Digital Learning and Mathematics launch
With music and dancing inspired by Michael Jackson's "Thriller", NAO invites delegates at the AAMT Conference to join the new Digital Learning and Mathematics community.
Australians defend RoboCup World Championships
A University of New South Wales (UNSW) team of student engineers and their robots are in Hefei, China to compete in the RoboCup World Championships. The team will defend their 2014 World Championship title in the Standard Platform League. The waist high robots play on a nine-metre-long field, much smaller than a regular soccer field. "Under-6s soccer is the best comparison," said team leader and PhD student Sean Harris. "They've got two eyes, a face, legs, arms, torso, just like a regular person, and they're a little bit clunky in the way they walk around." Each team has been given the same robots but it is the software design that gives players the edge. "In our competition it's a standard platform, so everyone purchases the same robots and then it's all about the artificial intelligence and the programming and the smarts that you give the robot," Mr Harris said.
Audio:
Sean Harris tells Lindy Kerin the UNSW team are prepared for the match (The World Today)
YouTube:
2014 RoboCup grand final
