This video is a recording of ByteEd’s NZ Techweek 2022 webinar Play Code Learn: Dinosaur Steps, and introduction to learning DT through AR.

In this webinar, we introduce the ByteEd team and our approach to developing educational resources for learning in the digital technologies area. We explore the thinking behind our new series of STEM kits, Play Code Learn, and announce our latest resource: Dinosaur Steps.

Explore a new and innovative way to teach computational thinking and digital technologies to students aged 4 to 13. Play Code Learn has been developed by a team of prize winning Technology educationalists and experienced programmers in Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). The Dinosaur series of kits have been developed using the latest computer science methodology and educational pedagogies to engage all learners with computational thinking, moving them from being ‘users’ of digital tools to being ‘creators; with digital technologies (DT).

Each kit aids the teaching of future focused skills and techniques whether in school for student-led or teacher-taught activities, or at home by children and family.

The kits use a STEM-based approach to learning and are very ‘hands on’ with student engagement deepened through the use of a practical kit that introduces and develops understanding of algorithms and an AR app that takes students to the next stage of DT understanding and knowledge with programming & AR. They ‘hook’ a diverse range of children into learning with a series of fun (and cute) dinosaur characters and our hero of the kits, Explorer Ed the robot!