Kieran Nolan, Wooranna Park Primary School

Kieran Nolan, Wooranna Park Primary School

educational technologist

Kieran Nolan’s technical guidance has been instrumental in preparing Wooranna Park Primary School for remote learning (even prior to COVID-19) and in introducing innovations in EdTech.

Nolan has provided support for families to stay connected and learn from home, by:

  • developing RocketShoes, an educational platform that allows learners to produce and keep track of their own learning materials, including assignments, notes, and digital assets; and organisations to manage very large amounts of content    
  • working with students to build computers from scratch and upgrade old computers during the COVID-19 period to give them experience with hardware, while at the same time, making 12 new conferencing stations around the school for remote learning
  • organising online donations via Twitter to support one family that had been going through hardship and homelessness during COVID-19, with funds used to supply the family with internet via a smartphone, a laptop for student work, and Uber eats credit for food.      
  • ongoing development of new internet Web 3; GitHub, a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration; as well as all sorts of professional websites
  • implementation of a Minecraft CoderDojo so students can continue their coding lessons online.    
  • initiating a lightning network 12 word seed hunt for students at WPPS and other schools, to encouraged literacy in a fun way and invoke financial literacy and elements of blockchain education.