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The Write Code: Storytelling Through Robotics |
Participate and share : Poster
Ruth Bidi
In a unit that integrates language arts and robotics, students move through the writing process as they develop their personal stories, written and accompanied by Sphero bots. Through this engaging unit, students discover that the link between the writing and coding process is remarkably strong, leveraging their powers for beautiful storytelling.
| Audience: | Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Coaches, Teachers |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices not needed |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | Sphero.edu |
| Topic: | Innovation in early childhood/elementary |
| Grade level: | PK-5 |
| Subject area: | Language arts, STEM/STEAM |
| ISTE Standards: | For Educators: Designer
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The purpose of this presentation is the equip educators with another tool for integrating robotics into their learning, and engaging even the most reluctant of writers in comprehensive storytelling. I want to demonstrate how the writing process can be supported through coding, thus creating motivation for a wider range of students. For those unfamiliar with Sphero bots, I hope to inspire educators into thinking outside the box on how to use this tool, considering ways it can be integrated across many subject areas, but with a particular focus on language arts. Some of the specific literacy skills I will demonstrate are supported through are; understanding the setting of a story, parts of a plot, sequence and transitional words, character exploration and development, and making inferences, to name a few. I want to sho educators how Social Emotional Learning can also be supported through this unit through the use of the color-coding used in the zones of regulation. I also want to encourage teachers to employ the power of computational teaching as a concrete example of how important it is to learn from mistakes with specific examples from footage of how students use positive problem solving to build their stories. Lastly, I will demonstrate how this unit empowers learners with a concrete way to actively practicing the steps of problem solving (understand, plan, solve, and reflect).
https://teachyourkidscode.com/what-is-computational-thinking/https://teachyourkidscode.com/why-coding-is-important-to-learn/
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/trtr.1885
I am an architect of student learning who has worked in public, international, and independent schools for the last eighteen years, leveraging the power of Ed- tech to enhance student learning. I have developed curriculum to remove barriers of earning computational thinking for marginalized communities. In my latest work, robotics storytelling, I integrate coding with story writing to produce stories that come to life on a map student design. This spring, I complete my M.Ed from Harvard Graduate School of Education with a focus on Mind, Brain, and Education.
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