hands-on, minds-on learning & SERious Play

As you explore today's activities, I invite you to consider how your learning experience reflects the theoretical and research-based principles for teaching and learning computational thinking through visual programming and robotics: 

• Verbal and Written Scaffolding

• Playing with real-world problems, projects, and ideas

• Hands-on, minds-on learning 

• Creating and sharing learning artifacts with authentic audiences

• Link to the engineering design process (process and production skills)

Remember, our role as teachers is not to be the expert in the room 

Our job is to create a learning environment that supports our students' creative thinking, collaboration, communication, and problem-solving through hands-on serious play with a range of technologies, problems, and projects. 

And to make this possible, we need to give ourselves the freedom to play.