LwICT

Literacy with Information and Communications Technology

What is LwICT?

It's about supporting learners in the digital age. The LwICT Continuum can assist teachers and students with assessing thinking skills during inquiry-based learning—whether digital tools are present or not.

News: Robotics & Coding

Coding is all about engagement!

June 22, 2018: Engaging our students with problems they enjoy solving leads to heightened engagement, which can then be utilized for learning in any area. Seymour Papert, the South African mathematician and educator, envisioned the role of computing in schools as an avenue for students to actively construct their own knowledge by creating and solving challenges. He was prophetic! That's what's happening

today, as students use a variety of easy-to-use coding tools, like Scratch, Playgrounds, and various robots.

We have placed Blue-bots and Spheros in each PRSD school this spring so that teachers can begin to explore some strategies for engaging students with coding. There are also 3 Dash robots available upon request. And, a first in PRSD, Elm Creek students are reflecting on their experiences coding for drone flights!

June UPDATE:

The slides (see right) outline some of the activities we've undertaken this year in preparing coding resources for classrooms.

Phones, Clones & Drones

Drones at ECS:

Gr. 6 students at Elm Creek 'volunteered' to take part in an enrichment activity, learning how to code drones. Here's a video from their presentation on June 22nd. See more here.

ECSdrones.mov

Meet the Cast:

BlueBot is a simple bluetooth-equipped robot that's great for K–4 classrooms. It comes with a simple iPad app for practice when the robot is not available.

Dash is a programmable robot on wheels with several lights, buttons, a speaker and microphone — all controllable via coding apps on our iPads. Like the other robots, it operates without the need for WiFi or internet access.

Sphero is more sophisticated device, suitable for Gr. 4–12. It can be controlled manually or via coded instructions from an app on smartphone, Chromebook or iPad.

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Digital Resources

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Classroom Activities

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