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Digital Technologies Institute – September 2026
- Digital Technologies Institute PTY LTD
- 5 hours ago
- 3 min read
Classroom experiences, smarter tools for teachers, and professional learning on demand
September is a great time to explore some of the latest resources and ideas from DTI. Our three recent releases span Mathematics, Cybersecurity, AI and Robotics, offering new ways for students to explore, experiment and learn by doing.
That same philosophy extends beyond the screen. With B4 Spark, students can get hands-on with the inner workings of a computer, while our Curriculum Search Engine and Digital Transformation Tool help teachers and schools turn ideas and insights into action. Together with our on-demand professional learning resources, there’s plenty to explore in this edition.
🔔 In This Issue
📈 CurveLab – Explore functions, derivatives and curve sketching
⚔️ Cyber Command – Red Team vs Blue Team cybersecurity
🤖 Capture the Flag with AI and Robotics – Meet Scout the Robot
📊 Digital Transformation Tool – From insight to action
🔍 Curriculum Search Engine – Start with an idea, find where it fits
🎓 Professional Learning – Learn when it suits you
🧰 Computing You Can Touch
📈 CurveLab
CurveLab is our new free mathematics environment for exploring functions, graphs and derivatives.
Students can investigate intercepts, turning points, minima, maxima, concavity and points of inflection, while comparing the graph of f(x) with its derivatives. A built-in derivative checker also lets students test their own calculations and receive immediate feedback.
It works particularly well as a companion to classroom teaching: predict and calculate first, then use CurveLab to investigate and check.
⚔️ Cyber Command
What happens after students have learned the basics of Python?
Cyber Command provides one answer.
Two students enter the Battle Arena as Red Team and Blue Team, applying Python skills to password attacks, phishing and cyber defence before moving into a strategic incident-response battle.
Rather than completing another sequence of individual coding exercises, students must code, compete, react and make decisions under pressure.
🤖 Meet Scout: AI and Robotics
Our completely refurbished Capture the Flag with AI and Robotics course gives younger students a very tangible introduction to artificial intelligence.
Students meet Scout, a virtual robot, observe how its colour sensor provides input to its AI, and see how the resulting decisions control its motors. When Scout’s driving AI breaks down, students gradually rebuild it themselves.
The course combines robotics, AI, systems thinking and problem solving in an engaging mission story—and is now available in English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese.
📊 How Digitally Capable Is Your School?
The Digital Transformation Tool (DTT) takes a whole of school approach: rather than focusing on individual lessons, it helps schools understand and strengthen their overall digital capabilities.
Schools can assess areas including leadership, learning, managing and teaching, explore their results, identify priorities and quick wins, and use the integrated AI Advisor to turn those insights into concrete actions.
It’s deliberately more than a static survey and report. The aim is to help answer the question that comes afterwards: “What should we do next?”
🔍 Start With Your Teaching Idea
Teachers don’t usually start planning with a curriculum code. They start with an idea. Perhaps you want students to analyse patterns in weather data, investigate sustainability, build a robot—or explore cybersecurity.
Enter that idea into our Curriculum Search Engine, and it searches the Australian Curriculum V9 for relevant connections across learning areas, capabilities and priorities. Its meaning-aware search means you can describe what you want to teach naturally rather than trying to guess the terminology used by the curriculum.
The integrated AI Advisor can then help turn those curriculum connections into lesson ideas.
🧐 Teacher Professional Development
Do AI-related PD at times that suit you best:
The DTI Classroom offers an interactive, self-paced AI workshop. It includes everything teachers need to get started with AI teaching. 👉 Check it out
You can subscribe to our AI video channel to watch AI webinars at your convenience. 👉 Check it out and scroll to the bottom of the page.
🧰 Computing You Can Touch
With so much of Digital Technologies now happening on a screen, B4 Spark offers something refreshingly different: students can explore how a computer actually works by building and programming one themselves.
Through hands-on activities, students investigate binary, memory, instructions, algorithms and the fundamental operation of a computer processor. Rather than treating the computer as a black box, B4 Spark makes its inner workings visible and tangible.
It’s a great way to bring physical, hands-on computing back into the classroom—and a useful complement to coding, AI and cybersecurity activities on MyComputerBrain.
Explore at 👉 Spark Home.
We remain committed to supporting you with practical tools, inspiring PD, and curriculum-aligned resources. Whether you’re exploring AI, upskilling in Digital Systems, or searching for the perfect content, we’re here for you.
Warm Regards,
Dr. Karsten Schulz
