Week 8: Digital Learning Challenge: Creating a fish tank

Tonight I visited the Scratch website and downloaded Scratch. I had to download the instructions and look through a few of the tabs to get an understanding of how the website worked. I had to watch a few of the tutorials which seemed a bit complex and time consuming.

I went through the process that was suggested to be done on the Moodle site; creating a fish tank with a swimming fish and a starfish and/or octopus swimming backwards and forwards at the bottom of the tank.

I began creating the codes, also known as the algorithm to get the creatures moving. I was lucky enough to have my brother visit my room asking what I was doing. I took it as an opportunity to share my knowledge of the course so far and explained the process that I was completing. He became very intrigued and wanted to help and watch me. He asked me questions that I knew the answer to as well as questions that stumped me, so we had to find out the answer together.

To me, this past hour with him demonstrated how fun this could be for students working collaboratively together. Each student is going to have their own knowledge and unique talents and together they will be able to share knowledge and produce greater results.

Below are some of the snapshots I took while creating the fish tank.

Links to Curriculum:

Aims and Rationale:

Students will have had opportunities to create a range of digital solutions, such as interactive adventures that involve user choice, modelling simplified real world systems and simple guessing games.

A systematic approach to experimentation, problem-solving, prototyping and evaluation instills in students the value of planning and reviewing processes to realise ideas.

Band Description:

Implement simple digital solutions as visual programs with algorithms involving branching (decisions) and user input (ACTDIP011)

Work with others to plan the creation and communication of ideas and information safely, applying agreed ethical and social protocols(ACTDIP013)