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Participants will learn the background and methodologies used by GCS to build a program designed to cultivate productive struggle with elementary school students during library lessons. Participants will leave with pacing guides for implementation, details about Robo Wunderkind, and lessons to incorporating design challenges. Lessons will have slide decks and photos of student solutions. We'll share our ongoing evaluation of the implementation and anecdotal stories from participating school librarians.
Introduction and background: 10 minutes
Active overview of onboarding and professional learning: 10 minutes
Lessons and pacing guide: 5 minutes
Example hands on lesson with robo: 25 minutes
Reflections from GCS and participants: 5 minutes
Questions: 5 minutes
Participants will work with robowunderkind for an active over view and then collaboratively build and code to solve a problem based on a picture book. Time will be given for groups to explain their solutions.
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