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Issue 123 – Term 2, July 2024

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INTERFACE Student Minecraft Competition 2024

INTERFACE News and Views

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ETV: ‘Shuriken – Prisoners of Culture’ Free documentary explores a Second World War Japanese POW incident and challenges historical perspectives.

ActiveVision: Re-energising learning with Promethean ActivPanels

Accessit Library Roadshows are back – reimagined and ready to go! Accessit Library’s hugely popular Roadshows have been reimagined and are coming back throughout New Zealand in August.

Get your school protection with new Cyber Assistant Are you ready to take the lead in safeguarding your school’s digital future? The Ministry of Education is calling on educators to join the groundbreaking pilot of its new Cyber Assistant Tool. Designed to bolster schools’ resilience against cyber security and privacy threats, it represents a pivotal step towards ensuring a safe and secure online learning environment for all.

Are you getting a helping hand from AI in the classroom? From Face ID to Alexa, route planners to shopping suggestions, artificial intelligence is powering our daily digital lives. The technology is predicting, responding, advising, analysing, personalising, and creating like never before. And as AI turns its sights on the classroom, there’s plenty for educators to ponder.

Conjuring up new ways to teach with AI At Maeroa Intermediate School, Magic School – an AI-powered teaching platform – is casting a classroom spell for teachers, reducing their workload and helping them to focus on the core responsibility of their job, that of educating students.

Digital dinosaurs are bringing learning to life with AR Captivated by the augmented reality component of a new learning app, Mel Doney eagerly accepted being part of a pilot programme for the activity. And the AR activities quickly helped her students grasp computational thinking concepts.

Three awesome days Xploring digital learning People came from near and far, and it was great to see so many of you at this year’s INTERFACEXpo events in Lincoln, Rotorua and Auckland. Thanks to everyone who joined us. Your engagement and enthusiasm helped to make it such a successful event. We hope you all enjoyed the day as much as us. In our photo review, it certainly looks like you did!

INTERFACEXpo 2024: Thanks to this year’s sponsors

File Share: two pages of online resources for educators.

Competitions: Heaps of great prizes to be won!


INTERFACE June 2024

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