After spending a class getting my feet wet into the large pool of technology related literacies, I have decided to share my thoughts on a nice gadget that will be making its way to my school. My summer school director decided to have me put on a tech related summer session (which I am super psyched about) and together we decided that the best way to introduce coding and programming to students would be through the Sphero SPRK+.
We received our test Sphero's and have had a day to play with them and the drag and drop programming is very straight forward. I love the fact that students can write programming as well. There is also a "free style" method that lets users control the sphere like you would an RC car. I will still be doing test runs of the programming, so far, it is fun.
Using the device also helped me narrow down the activities I will doing with my 20 students during my 3 week summer session. Since it is a group that is above the average GPA, I am trying to incorporate socialization activities along with some creative technology activities. Once I am a bit more satisfied with the lesson plan I will be implementing I will share here, along with pictures and videos.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Sunday, April 30, 2017
7.4 Integration of Digital Skills and Tools
Exploring Web Literacy in the Digital Age
I have decided to incorporate and explore a classroom blog as a means of exploring web literacy. The inspiration for this came from the article in this weeks lesson: Creating a class blog: A strategy that can promote collaboration, motivation and improvement in literacy by Dr. Hani Morgan.
I realized that it is actually an easy way to incorporate all aspects of Connecting through participating on the web. With the use of a classroom blog or even individual student blogs students accomplish:
Sharing - Students can create a blog that can be viewed all over the web.
Collaborating - Through a classroom blog, collaborating becomes key to a successful blog.
Community Participation - The focus on the blog can highly impact a community. Focusing a class blog on helping the homeless connects the class collaboration to the community it surrounds.
Privacy - All blogs sites have key privacy settings that can control who reads and comments on blogs. Privacy is learned through a better understanding of digital citizenship.
Open Practices - Open practices allows students to explore the methods that work well for them. Even though the blogs have basic templates, the customization aspects of each individual site allow for students to openly create something their own.
Helpful inks:
Starting a new blog:I realized that it is actually an easy way to incorporate all aspects of Connecting through participating on the web. With the use of a classroom blog or even individual student blogs students accomplish:
Sharing - Students can create a blog that can be viewed all over the web.
Collaborating - Through a classroom blog, collaborating becomes key to a successful blog.
Community Participation - The focus on the blog can highly impact a community. Focusing a class blog on helping the homeless connects the class collaboration to the community it surrounds.
Privacy - All blogs sites have key privacy settings that can control who reads and comments on blogs. Privacy is learned through a better understanding of digital citizenship.
Open Practices - Open practices allows students to explore the methods that work well for them. Even though the blogs have basic templates, the customization aspects of each individual site allow for students to openly create something their own.
Helpful inks:
https://startbloggingonline.com/get-started-classroom-blogging/
Existing classroom blog:
http://missgiraffesclass.blogspot.com/2016/10/25-chatty-class-classroom-management.html
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