https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Using Coding to Teach Mathematics: Results of a Pilot Project https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:43749 Wed 28 Sep 2022 11:53:49 AEST ]]> Constructionist experiences in teacher professional development: a tale of five years https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35311 Thu 21 Jan 2021 09:50:18 AEDT ]]> Building apostrophe power: lessons learnt for serious games development https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30345 Thu 12 Apr 2018 13:43:58 AEST ]]> Exploring play-learners' analytics in a serious game for literacy improvement https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:27780 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:37:05 AEDT ]]> Preparing teachers for the Digital Technologies curriculum: preliminary results of a pilot study https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30282 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:33:32 AEDT ]]> Improving undergraduate soft skills using m-learning and serious games https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23001 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:15:42 AEDT ]]> A Scoping Review of Studies on Computational Thinking in K-12 Mathematics Classrooms https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:45470 Fri 28 Oct 2022 14:29:49 AEDT ]]> To assess or not to assess: tensions negotiated in six years of teaching teachers about computational thinking https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35300 ScratchEd. Upon reflecting on her experiences designing and running ScratchEd, Karen Brennan identified five tensions faced by professional development providers, and proposed that these tensions could be used for scrutinising and critiquing professional development. In this paper we analyse, through the lens of Brennan's tensions, the process we have followed to design, evaluate and improve professional development. We argue that while we have experienced the same tensions, the extent to which we assess learning is a new tension that extends those identified by Brennan. There are strong reasons to assess teachers' knowledge, however, quantitative measures of learning could be at odds with Constructionism: as Papert argued in Mindstorms, constructionist educators should study their learning environments as anthropologists. Consequently, we have called this new tension the tension between anthropology and assessment.]]> Fri 12 Jul 2019 09:32:19 AEST ]]>