Call for interest from ECU and CURTIN team back at John Tonkin

Hi All, David McMeekin's amazing app development team are back at John Tonkin this year teaching Swift 2. These students have been teaching app development since 2012 now with high school students and really have it down. The best thing about these guys is they have developed the most awesome moral compass going to schools they are asked to go to. These schools are all low socio economic. The year 9s in the program are exposed to app development processes and techniques that are not given anywhere else that we know of. We do ask a lot of the school students and have always expected them to develop real software that will be used in the school afterward. There is a very strange comforting feeling in the pursuit of excellence. I love the way these students have adopted a sense of the way computing is actually socially empowering and innovative for the millennial generation. \br My latest research project at ECU considers any teacher looking to educate Year 8s in computational thinking. The material won't be like other curriculums. There will be a lot of visual processing that needs to occur with the learning materials. Anyone interested in this project please contact me at mknights@our.ecu.edu.au or melanie.tarr@gmail.com for a registration form. To have access to the curriculum and materials developed from the research, Years 8s will need to complete one lesson on computational thinking. Thanks Melanie