Jaime Martinez

Cooley Middle School Technology and Marketing Teacher

Mr. Martinez goes above and beyond to provide innovative lessons and bring hands-on experiences to his students.

Let's take a look at one of Mr. Martinez's Technology Assignments

Assignment Overview: Each student was asked to apply their coding and scripting experiences from previous modules and design an app that could solve a problem.

Objective: Research current popular apps and find an area that needs app support. Design an app that helps solve a problem using MIT App Inventor.

MIT App Inventor Description: MIT App Inventor is a cloud-based tool, which means students can build apps right in their web browsers. This website offers all the support students need to learn how to build their own apps.

MIT App Inventor- Project 4

Students apply previous knowledge of coding and scripting to develop their own apps that help meet a need.

Students went through the following steps:

Research popular apps and create a problem statement.
Design an app that helps solve the problem and create a flow chart that interprets programming logic.
Build the app. Continue to improve the app until it is ready for trial testing. Successfully solve the stated problem with an app that is ready for Beta testing.
Successfully create a video of the app in use, and explain the details of each element to the class.

Click HERE to see the project description in its entirety.

Students helped each other troubleshoot and test their apps prior to presenting their apps to the class.

A student checked his code to ensure his app worked properly prior to presenting to the class. His app was monetized so it included ads as well.

Mr. Martinez helped a student figure out why her app was shutting down abruptly. She was able to explain her thinking and determine the error in her code.

Do you want to learn more about MIT App Inventor? Click HERE!

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