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Welcome! We’re Under Construction
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Please bear with us while we redevelop the website to incorporate current and future New Zealand curriculum developments and integrate aspects of the UK curriculum.…
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Touch Input on Secondary Monitor in Windows 11
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1. Open Control Panel 2. Click Hardware and Sound 3. Click Tablet PC Settings 4. Click Setup 5. Select Touch Input 6. Follow Onscreen Instructions…
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Australia’s Under 16 Social Media Ban
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Australia has enacted a social media ban for Under 16 year olds. This has been inconsistently applied to different sites with Facebook, X, YouTube, and…
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Steam Hardware
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The announcement by Valve of new Steam hardware marks a continuation of Valve’s foray into the handheld and console market. This is probably the biggest…
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Bias in Generative AI
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The feature image shows inherant bias in the generative AI ssytems. Microsoft Copilot Chat was given the prompt: create an image showing the digital divide…
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Accessibility Features in the Last of Us Part II
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The Last of Us Part II has been a divisive game in terms of its content. However one thing the game has done well is…
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Setting up GitHub & GitHub Desktop
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1. Creating a GitHub Account 2. Installing GitHub Desktop 3. Creating a Repository A Repository (or “repo”) is like a folder for your Project. Using…
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How Generative AI Works
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What is Generative AI? Generative AI refers to systems that can create new content—text, images, audio, or video—based on patterns learned from large datasets. How…
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Are Video Games Art?
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Video games are a technical achievement with many different moving parts. Animation, Programming, 3D Modelling, sound Design, scripts, user interfaces, Artificial Intelligence routines, and music…
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Tron Catalyst
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Tron Catalyst is based on the Disney Tron franchise. Although franchise is a loose term. The original movie Tron came out in 1982 and was an early…
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Ethical
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The ethical implications can be difficult to tie down as they sometimes come down to the values or the end users and society or Legal…
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End User Considerations
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You always Need to consider all of the end users of your Outcome. This might not just be the people you intend to use it.…
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Cultural
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Cultural implications can be tricky. You Need to Identify the cultural groups that you are building the Outcome for, and also consider the other cultural…
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Aesthetics
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Aesthetics is about making your Outcome pleasing to look at or use. It is closely tied to Design. See this external article about Aesthetics in…
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Accessibility
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Accessibility is about making your Outcome work for a Range of people with different needs and/or disabilities. One example is that in video games, giving…
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Relevant Implications
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When working on NCEA Digital Technologies achievement standards, understanding relevant implications and how the command words (Identify, Describe, Explain, and Address) build upon each other…
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