Altino Scratch: June 1 - Hawaii PDE3 Scratch Course | Trainings for Teachers
What: For 2021-22, we have six PDE3 teacher trainings scheduled for computer science. Learn to code and apply principles of computer science to your classroom.
Why: Computer Science (CS) is a 21st century career choice but more importantly CS is about learning how to think creatively and logically. Also, CS is required in every public high school in Hawaii starting in 2021-22 school year via Act 51. New legislation will bring computer science to elementary and middle schools by 2025.
Who: Designed for K-12 teachers to teach coding. DOE approved for 3 credits. Open statewide.
How: We kick off live online at 8:00am, but most of your training is via self-paced videos and online support from our Altino instructors.
Experience level: No prior computer science or coding experience required.
Size: only 30 teachers per training. Wait list for only 10.
Cost: $0, but if you register and are a “no show”, or you drop without a good reason, you may not be allowed to attend this training again. Based on 3 years of delivering this training, you should budget 50 to 75 hours to learn the materials and to complete your portfolio – three lessons with three student samples per lesson plan. This is a demanding training – if you are awarded 3 credits it’s because you earned it.
Sponsors: Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, Oceanit Research Foundation, Toyota Hawaii, Department of Labor.
Contact: Brett Tanaka at OCID
Visit HIDOE's PDE3 website linked below and search 'Altino'.
IN THE NEWS | Hawaii Students are Coding a New Future with Altino Cars
Honolulu HI, 7 June 2022 | The University of Hawai’i Manoa’s “Project Hōkūlani” was featured on Hawaii News Now last week, featuring Oceanit’s collaboration to bring Computer Science and Design Thinking to more students across the state.
The primary goal of Project Hōkūlani is to support Native Hawaiian high school students and encourage them to enter into post-secondary science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The project supports this objective through culturally responsive, strength- and work-based enrichment programs. Project Hōkūlani is a partnership between UH Manoa and Oceanit, supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Native Hawaiian Education Program Grant.
Click to read and watch the full Hawaii News Now report here: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/06/08/project-hokulani-students-are-coding-new-future-starting-with-self-driving-cars/
The Project Hōkūlani research team is housed at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. NEW STUDENTS Applications are due on June 17th for 2022-2023 Year. You can learn more about Project Hōkūlani and apply here: https://cds.coe.hawaii.edu/hokulani/
Altino Intro SCRATCH: March 18 - Introduction "SCRATCH" workshop for teachers and parents
Aloha Hawaii teachers! Join us for a hands-on hybrid SCRATCH workshop to expose you and your students to another world.
Aloha! Please join us for a 2 hour hands-on workshop to expose yourself to elements of computer science, coding, and how you can use the Altino car (real/physical) to make subjects engaging and fun tomorrow. NOTE: for SCRATCH programming we do not have virtual car so we are planning an in-person workshop for those on Oahu, while doing an online session for those on the neighbor island who have access to Altino cars. Every island has a pool of Altino cars.
Prerequisite: None. This workshop is for non-technical teachers who have no coding experience, and for existing Altino teachers who want to learn SCRATCH, a visual programming language. We will have a separate setup day to get your computer and Altino car working together.
What to Bring: A PC laptop (not Chromebooks) so we can load a special version of SCRATCH that is customized for Altino. For neighbor island teachers, you will need to be able to join us via Zoom.
Instructor: Terry Holck
Location: Hybrid. A physical location on Oahu, and online via Zoom for neighbor island teachers. A Zoom link will be sent prior to the start of the workshop
If you have any questions, please contact Ian Kitajima, [email protected] or 808-531-3017, or Terry Holck, [email protected].
For more information about Altino visit Oceanit Research Foundation at the Organizer website link below!
Altino Intro C: March 16 - Introduction "C" workshop for teachers and parents
Aloha Hawaii teachers and parents! Join us online on March 16th from 9:00-11:00 am for a virtual Altino coding workshop. We'll be using the new Altino virtual car to expose you and your students to another world.
Please join us for a 2-hour, virtual workshop to expose yourself to elements of computer science, coding, and how you can use the Altino car (virtual and real) to make subjects engaging and fun tomorrow. Click the website link beneath "DETAILS" below.
Prerequisite: None. This workshop is for non-technical teachers who have no coding experience, and for existing Altino teachers who want to learn about the virtual car.
What to Bring: If you can join us via Zoom, you probably have everything you need, i.e., an internet connection and a web-browser.
Instructor: Stephanie Mew
Location: Online via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent prior to the start of the workshop
If you have any questions, please contact Ian Kitajima, [email protected] or 808-531-3017, or Stephanie Mew, [email protected].
For more information about Altino visit the Oceanit Research Foundation website in the organizer link below.
Ian Kitajima Talks Innovation in Education with What School Could Be
On Thursday, January 20th, Oceanit’s Ian Kitajima joined hosts Susannah Johnson and Kapono Ciotti for a What School Could Be “Game Changer Series” livestream discussion. For one hour, Kitajima spoke to an audience of some of education’s biggest changemakers on how he got into education, what it takes to be an innovator, how teachers can start using innovative approaches in the classroom, and what students could do to be “future-ready.”
As Oceanit’s Tech Sherpa, Ian has an inside perspective on the opportunities and potential in technology innovation and believes it’s incredibly important that Hawaiʻi’s students are equipped for a future shaped by artificial intelligence and computer science. After all, he argues, the innovative companies of the future don’t yet exist—they’ll be founded by today’s students, and the best thing we can do to prepare them is to get them engaged with technology and spark their interest now.
To reach the greatest number of students, Ian has focused on first reaching teachers. For the last decade, he has worked tirelessly to empower the community to think innovatively and create the future via Design Thinking and coding. To date, over 10,000 Hawaiʻi educators and industry professionals have gone through Oceanit’s Design Thinking workshops, and Ian is well on his way to reaching the goal of training 5,000 non-technical teachers how to code using Altino programmable cars.
Responding to questions from the livestream audience, Ian discussed fostering innovation in education at length, identifying things teachers can do to encourage innovative thinking, including cultivating a culture of experimentation, providing the room for failure – where it is expected and accepted, making learning experiences that students want versus trying to make students want to learn, and collaborating with people outside education.
What Schools Could Be -- Game Changer Series: A Conversation with Ian Kitajima
Join What Schools Could Be for a Game Changer Series conversation with Oceanit's Director of Corporate Development, Ian Kitajima. Ian is best known as the “Technology Sherpa” at Oceanit – a “Mind to Market” innovation lab of 160 scientists, engineers, technologists, designers, and dreamers conducting advance technology development research for government and private clients worldwide.
On Thursday, January 20, from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM HST (7:00 PM Eastern), Ian will join host Ted Dintersmith to talk about Oceanit's SURF program and educational initiatives focused on bringing innovation, computer science, coding, and Design Thinking to our schools. Oceanit's SURF program is focused on empowering students and educators with new super powers for the future. RSVP by clicking the Eventbrite link below!
As Oceanit's Technology Sherpa, his role is to move science and technology breakthroughs from the lab to the marketplace, which has included opening the South Korean market since 2014, and 3 venture backed Oceanit startups as a co-founder at Hoana Medical, Nanopoint, and Ibis Networks. He is the co-founder of the Design Thinking Hawaii movement beginning in 2010, the "Altino" movement in 2017 to teach 5000 non-technical teachers creative problem solving skills via computer programming so every student in Hawaii can be exposed to Computer Science, and the Aloha AI Network in 2019 to put the future of Artificial Intelligence into the hands of teachers and students now.
Altino Intro C: October 12 - Hawaii PD Course | Introduction to the Principles of Programming
What: For 2021-22, we have six PDE3 teacher trainings scheduled for computer science. Learn to code and apply principles of computer science to your classroom.
Why: Computer Science (CS) is a 21st century career choice but more importantly CS is about learning how to think creatively and logically. Also, CS is required in every public high school in Hawaii starting in 2021-22 school year via Act 51. New legislation will bring computer science to elementary and middle schools by 2025.
Who: Designed for K-12 teachers to teach coding. DOE approved for 3 credits. Open statewide.
How: We kick off live online at 8:00am, but most of your training is via self-paced videos and online support from our Altino instructors.
Experience level: No prior computer science or coding experience required.
Size: only 30 teachers per training. Wait list for only 10.
Cost: $0, but if you register and are a “no show”, or you drop without a good reason, you may not be allowed to attend this training again. Based on 3 years of delivering this training, you should budget 50 to 75 hours to learn the materials and to complete your portfolio – three lessons with three student samples per lesson plan. This is a demanding training – if you are awarded 3 credits it’s because you earned it.
Sponsors: Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, Oceanit Research Foundation, Toyota Hawaii, Department of Labor.
Contact: Brett Tanaka at OCID
Visit HIDOE's PDE3 website linked below and search 'Altino'.
Altino Intro C: July 13 - Hawaii PD Course | Introduction to the Principles of Programming
What: For 2021-22, we have six PDE3 teacher trainings scheduled for computer science. Learn to code and apply principles of computer science to your classroom.
Why: Computer Science (CS) is a 21st century career choice but more importantly CS is about learning how to think creatively and logically. Also, CS is required in every public high school in Hawaii starting in 2021-22 school year via Act 51. New legislation will bring computer science to elementary and middle schools by 2025.
Who: Designed for K-12 teachers to teach coding. DOE approved for 3 credits. Open statewide.
How: We kick off live online at 8:00am, but most of your training is via self-paced videos and online support from our Altino instructors.
Experience level: No prior computer science or coding experience required.
Size: only 30 teachers per training. Wait list for only 10.
Cost: $0, but if you register and are a “no show”, or you drop without a good reason, you may not be allowed to attend this training again. Based on 3 years of delivering this training, you should budget 50 to 75 hours to learn the materials and to complete your portfolio – three lessons with three student samples per lesson plan. This is a demanding training – if you are awarded 3 credits it’s because you earned it.
Sponsors: Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, Oceanit Research Foundation, Toyota Hawaii, Department of Labor.
Contact: Brett Tanaka at OCID
Visit HIDOE's PDE3 website linked below and search 'Altino'.
Altino Scratch: July 1 - Hawaii PD Course | Introduction to the Principles of Programming
What: For 2021-22, we have six PDE3 teacher trainings scheduled for computer science. Learn to code and apply principles of computer science to your classroom.
Why: Computer Science (CS) is a 21st century career choice but more importantly CS is about learning how to think creatively and logically. Also, CS is required in every public high school in Hawaii starting in 2021-22 school year via Act 51. New legislation will bring computer science to elementary and middle schools by 2025.
Who: Designed for K-12 teachers to teach coding. DOE approved for 3 credits. Open statewide.
How: We kick off live online at 8:00am, but most of your training is via self-paced videos and online support from our Altino instructors.
Experience level: No prior computer science or coding experience required.
Size: only 30 teachers per training. Wait list for only 10.
Cost: $0, but if you register and are a “no show”, or you drop without a good reason, you may not be allowed to attend this training again. Based on 3 years of delivering this training, you should budget 50 to 75 hours to learn the materials and to complete your portfolio – three lessons with three student samples per lesson plan. This is a demanding training – if you are awarded 3 credits it’s because you earned it.
Sponsors: Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, Oceanit Research Foundation, Toyota Hawaii, Department of Labor.
Contact: Brett Tanaka at OCID
Visit HIDOE's PDE3 website linked below and search 'Altino'.
Altino Advance C: June 22 - Hawaii PD Course | Advanced Principles of Programming
What: For 2021-22, we have six PDE3 teacher trainings scheduled for computer science. Learn to code and apply principles of computer science to your classroom. For this class, you must have completed the Altino Intro C class, and received 3 credits.
Why: Computer Science (CS) is a 21st century career choice but more importantly CS is about learning how to think creatively and logically. Also, CS is required in every public high school in Hawaii starting in 2021-22 school year via Act 51. New legislation will bring computer science to elementary and middle schools by 2025.
Who: Designed for K-12 teachers to teach coding. DOE approved for 3 credits. For this class, you must have completed the Altino Intro C class, and received 3 credits.
How: We kick off live online at 8:00am, but most of your training is via self-paced videos and online support from our Altino instructors.
Experience level: No prior computer science or coding experience required.
Size: only 30 teachers per training. Wait list for only 10.
Cost: $0, but if you register and are a “no show”, or you drop without a good reason, you may not be allowed to attend this training again. Based on 3 years of delivering this training, you should budget 50 to 75 hours to learn the materials and to complete your portfolio – three lessons with three student samples per lesson plan. This is a demanding training – if you are awarded 3 credits it’s because you earned it.
Sponsors: Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, Oceanit Research Foundation, Toyota Hawaii, Department of Labor.
Contact: Brett Tanaka at OCID
Visit HIDOE's PDE3 website linked below and search 'Altino'.