Technology
Meet our newest robot, DASH! Students use online blockly coding to design programs to control DASH. It talks, moves, dances, and can we can even record our own voices for DASH to speak. Perseverance of partners was very impressive. If it doesn't work correctly the first time, we must continue figuring out the solution!
Meet our newest robot, DASH! Students use online blockly coding to design programs to control DASH. It talks, moves, dances, and can we can even record our own voices for DASH to speak. Perseverance of partners was very impressive. If it doesn't work correctly the first time, we must continue figuring out the solution!
Ozobots use sensors for line coding along with color block commands. Students must draw very precise lines and blocks of color since Ozobot is very sensitive. Attention to detail is very important! Once students mastered this color block coding themselves, they worked as a table team to complete team challenges.
Ozobots use sensors for line coding along with color block commands. Students must draw very precise lines and blocks of color since Ozobot is very sensitive. Attention to detail is very important! Once students mastered this color block coding themselves, they worked as a table team to complete team challenges.
Ozozbots can also be used for online Blockly coding. It is fascinating to be able to transfer the online blockly program to the Ozobots to perform!
Ozozbots can also be used for online Blockly coding. It is fascinating to be able to transfer the online blockly program to the Ozobots to perform!
Fun times with Cubelets! These electronic cubes have different functions so when they are arranged differently, we create robots that perform various actions . Some cubes are like our five senses that input information and some cubes are like little brains that process the information. Other cubes output information as action such as light, movement, and rotation.
Fun times with Cubelets! These electronic cubes have different functions so when they are arranged differently, we create robots that perform various actions . Some cubes are like our five senses that input information and some cubes are like little brains that process the information. Other cubes output information as action such as light, movement, and rotation.
Botley robots can move with line coding using sensors. Students must work as a team to create multiple line paths for Botley while being very observant to hold all line segment cards in place.
Botley robots can move with line coding using sensors. Students must work as a team to create multiple line paths for Botley while being very observant to hold all line segment cards in place.
Botley robots can also be used for directional coding. Students must first write a line of code on paper using symbols for directions. Then the directional commands are entered into the remote and finally transmitted to Botley to perform.
Botley robots can also be used for directional coding. Students must first write a line of code on paper using symbols for directions. Then the directional commands are entered into the remote and finally transmitted to Botley to perform.
Our Mouse robots give students their first experience in writing lines of code using directional symbols. Students must write the line of code on paper in order to program the mouse. Everyone must be observant to make sure our Mouse Robots don't fall off the table!
Our Mouse robots give students their first experience in writing lines of code using directional symbols. Students must write the line of code on paper in order to program the mouse. Everyone must be observant to make sure our Mouse Robots don't fall off the table!
One of our offline coding activities is using directional symbols to move characters through a maze. Students wrote the coding program while their partner moved the character. It is so challenging to consider; are we moving to character's right or left? Are we moving to our own right or left? Then they exchanged papers with another partner to team to check their program codes to find any "bugs" to "debug".
One of our offline coding activities is using directional symbols to move characters through a maze. Students wrote the coding program while their partner moved the character. It is so challenging to consider; are we moving to character's right or left? Are we moving to our own right or left? Then they exchanged papers with another partner to team to check their program codes to find any "bugs" to "debug".
Using Morse Code was a fun way to experience offline coding. So many things our brains have to process! We wrote our answers to simple questions with Morse Code which are patterns of dots and dashes to represent letters of the alphabet. Then we shared our Morse Code answers in different ways for others to decipher or decode. The easiest way to communicate was just transferring answers from Morse Code to letters to then spell words. It was much more difficult when each dash and dot was shown with hand signals. Students first wrote dashes and dots as they were shown with hand signals, then spelled words using the Morse Code key. Finally, we used sound to communicate our dashes and dots to be written and then spell words to discover our classmates' answers to simple questions. So much fun, but so much thinking!
Using Morse Code was a fun way to experience offline coding. So many things our brains have to process! We wrote our answers to simple questions with Morse Code which are patterns of dots and dashes to represent letters of the alphabet. Then we shared our Morse Code answers in different ways for others to decipher or decode. The easiest way to communicate was just transferring answers from Morse Code to letters to then spell words. It was much more difficult when each dash and dot was shown with hand signals. Students first wrote dashes and dots as they were shown with hand signals, then spelled words using the Morse Code key. Finally, we used sound to communicate our dashes and dots to be written and then spell words to discover our classmates' answers to simple questions. So much fun, but so much thinking!
