ByteWise
Bursting with Bytes of Big Tech Smarts
Created by award-winning educator and futures thinker Chris Clay.
Our Focus
Bursting with energy and tech smarts, ByteWise helps ākonga explore emerging technologies, AI, and digital safety in a way that's exciting, educational, and unforgettable.
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Technological Literacy
Help staff and students develop an awareness of emerging technologies, how they work and how they are changing our world.
Technological Literacy
Give your students and staff the confidence to talk about new technologies with curiosity and clarity. Our session introduces and demystifies new technologies that are emerging from advances in fields such as artificial intelligence, automation, robotics and genetics in a simple, engaging way—explaining how they work and how they're impacting our world both now and in the future.
Students will:
- Learn the basics of how technologies work - they're not magic or even usually that complicated
- See a balanced perspective of ways that new technologies are being used for good and ways it might cause problems.
- Understand how technology is shaping jobs, media, and daily life
- Build the language and confidence to talk about emerging tech and ask good questions
A future-focused boost to digital understanding for the whole school.
Cyber-safety
As new technologies such as AI grows in its capability in use, the threats we face change. Keep your school community safe by staying one-step ahead of emerging issues.
Cyber-safety
Stay one step ahead of new cyber threats with our clear, engaging programme. We help your school community understand how to stay safe as technology evolves.
Students will:
- understand who is behind the voice of their smart-speakers and the NPCs in video-games they play
- Learn that not everything they see or hear online is real
- Learn about tricks we can use to keep ourselves and our data safe when online or out in the real world.
Curriculum-focus
Our spark sessions and follow-up resources are designed to connect with NZC at a number of levels. A great way to get a great dose of STEAM in one intensely fun hit but with additional connections to social science, health and beyond.
Curriculum-focus
Our spark-sessions combine incredible stories and experiences with opportunities for critical thinking and exploration. Our sessions all connect directly with the following areas of NZC:
Technology (incl. Digital Tech)
- Society's needs and priorities and evolving tech
- Ethical impacts of technologies
- Algorithms and programming
- Logic through Inputs, Outputs and Processing
Science
- Applications of technologies to change how we do science
Mathematics
- Statistics, data and pattern seeking
The Arts
- AI-generated media - what does this mean for the Arts and Creativity?
2025 Programme
Decoding AI - Unmasking the brains behind the bots
Our programme for 2025 will focus on AI literacy and helping young people understand this new and increasingly present parts of their lives.
Young people have grown up in the world of smart speakers, Chat-GPT and interactive AI video-game characters (NPCs). However, they often have no clue, how they work or how their "personality" isn't real.
We're super excited to offer this programme to schools around New Zealand Aotearoa. Check out the tiles on the right to get a sense of what this year's Spark-Sessions will include.Check out the tiles below to get a sense of what this year's Spark-Sessions will include.
Meeting AI Humans
Meet AI humans and discover who they are, why they're hilarious, and how they actually work.
Stories and Demonstrations
Explore stories about scientists and engineers creating incredible new technologies, plus see demonstrations of AI making music, movies, and video games.
Train an AI Model
Experience hands-on learning as we train our own ByteWise AI model together.
Safety Guidelines
Learn essential guidelines for keeping ourselves and each other safe around AI - including who to trust, what rules to follow, and what to watch out for.
Meet Your Guide to The Future
Chris is an award-winning educator with a proven track record of making complex tech concepts accessible and engaging for young people.
Known for his dynamic style, Chris has delivered hundreds of workshops, keynotes, and even TV shows across New Zealand and internationally. He has taken the stage at prestigious events such as TEDx and the SingularityU Summit, and is trusted by schools and organisations nationwide to demystify technologies that often feel like magic. His work empowers people not just to understand these innovations, but to find their voice in shaping the future.
Chris helps young people build confidence, ask better questions, and see themselves as future creators—not just consumers—of technology.
Ready to Book Your Spark Session?
Bring the excitement of technology to your school with our engaging, curriculum-aligned spark sessions.
- ✨ Interactive sessions
- 📚 Curriculum-aligned content
- 🎓 Suitable for years 3-8
- 📋 Follow-up resources included