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Students/Children

DisengagedEngaged

Goals and Motivations

  • I don't think I understand technology nor do I see a reason to want to
  • If I'm participating at an event, It is only because this workshop/activity is better than regular class
  • I will drop whatever activity I'm doing and watch youtube/play io games, play flash games if unattended / unmentored
  • If I find the activity too difficult / I don't get help I will revert to games

Goals and Motivations

    • I want to learn how to make/create things
    • I want to understand technology so that I can create my own stuff
    • If unattended I will explore the thing I'm working on and deviate by building things that differ from the assignment, often in an interesting way


  • High Level Success looks like…
    • Successfully demonstrate that tech can be cool, interesting, and is a valid career choice as an industry
    • Conversion to engaged students


High Level Success looks like…

    • Helping student transition from learner to mentor for other students
    • Preparing student for industry pathway into tech sector

Actions we want them to take to accomplish the above

    • Encourage teachers/parents into getting them to events
    • Attend tech workshops and events
    • Retain learning during events
    • Continuing tech education post-event
    • Sharing events with peers
    • Sub to newsletter to find out about future events
    • Become super cool tech-literate people and the backbone of kiwi industry when they grow up

Actions we want them to take to accomplish the above

    • Encourage teachers/parents into getting them to events
    • Attend tech workshops and events
    • Retain learning during events
    • Continuing tech education post-event
    • Sharing events with peers
    • Understand tech subjects well enough to teach others
    • Sub to newsletter
    • Become super cool tech-literate people and the backbone of kiwi industry when they grow up


Parents

DisengagedEngaged w/disengaged student

Engaged parent w/engaged student

  • Goals and Motivations
    • I don’t understand much about technology
    • I don't see the value in taking my child to tech events
    • I see a tech event/workshop event as daycare / a place to dump the kids for a short while without giving much thought to the tech education
  • Goals and Motivations
    • I want my child to succeed at life
    • I want to change my child's perspective on technology so that it is seen as an important tool
    • I believe that tech education will give my child a better life
    • I don’t want to have to bribe my child to do more tech things as the learning will stop the moment the gifts stop
  • Goals and Motivations
    • I want help my child do more with their tech efforts
    • I want to sustain the momentum my child has built up learning about technology
    • I want my child to keep working on projects, attending competitions, and to become a STEM role model


  • High level success looks like…
    • Demonstrating the value that technology education brings to their child
    • Conversion to engaged parent
  • High level success looks like…
    • My child attaining a desire to learn tech skills
    • My child progressing from only doing things at workshops, to developing their own games/programs/projects on their own without any prompting or briefing
    • My child transitioning from disengaged with technology to engaged
  • High level success looks like…
    • Ensuring student is consistently learning new tech skills
    • Child transitioning from student to mentor


  • Actions we want them to take to accomplish the above
    • Motivate them to ask for help
    • Learning more about technology
    • Understanding that there are tech jobs and career paths in the industry
    • Taking their child to tech events and workshops
    • Ensuring they continue education post intervention
  • Actions we want them to take to accomplish the above
    • Sending child to events
    • Request support helping their child transition if needed
    • Sub to newsletter to learn about more omg opportunities
    • performing volunteering opportunities and continuing to contribute by being a mentor to other children
    • Using our learning resources pre/post event to continue tech education
  • Actions we want them to take
    • Ensure that the student keeps undertaking tech projects, either solo/in a team/with help from parent
    • Attend events
    • Encourage other students to take up the same challenges
    • Ensure that other students upskill