The children were excited to become App designers today!
Francis Wallace, Principal Engineer of the Make It Happen Club joined us this morning to offer us the opportunity to take part in an exciting App Design challenge. The children have the chance to enter their own app design creations into a competitition just for the North Rhins Partnership. The winning design from across our three schools will be made into reality for everyone to enjoy and use!
To help prepare children to develop their creations, Francis discussed the various apps that we use in our everyday life, chatting about who would use them and what they do. She then shared examples of winning designs from previous years that had been made into real apps.
Have a look here to see the wonderfully creative apps that children have designed in the past. Click on the Winners tab.
Our boys and girls spent a little time reviewing the features of past winning apps, before moving on to design their own. Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) were are the fore, as childrem analysed, applied, created and evaluated their concept design.
This ‘unplugged’ activity helps develop children’s digital literacy and computational thinking. It also builds an awareness of technological developments through representing concepts and products through the use of graphic media. We will share our design shortly, not wanting to reveal our entries too soon. 😉
Good Luck Team Portpatrick!
Update: Here are the results:
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