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It's never too early to teach robotics

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Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom Lobby, Table 13

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Jami Shields
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Rainwater Elementary
@MissJShields1
Jami is an experienced innovative educator able to transition easily in today's education environment online and in-person. She has a demonstrated history of working in the primary education industry with years of classroom experience. Jami is a curriculum developer and writer using content and technology for hands-on experience. She is a coding, robotics and STEM instructor at the elementary school level. She has taught at numerous grade levels with over 25 years of experience. She has a master's level education with an emphasis in ESL and Curriculum and Instruction. Jami is a dedicated educator working on her National Board Certification.

Session description

With programs like Scratch Jr, children can learn how to code before they read. I'll cover how to introduce robots, and why it's important to develop computational thinking & collaboration skills early on. Ideas will be given to show how students can code without reading - all the way to using Python.

Purpose & objective

This presentation will go over how to introduce paper and computer free programming to students at an early age. It will then move on to show how students can use basic programming like scratch junior to program without reading. Then I will show how teachers can set up challenges that can be used to go to robot using scratch type coding. I will also show teachers and others how robotics can be used in early childhood classrooms with many different levels of students all with the same robot. One robot in particular I love to use is Marty by robotical. He is a humanoid looking robot that can be coded multiple ways so that students can be equitably included even if they are learning at different levels.

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Outline

As this is a poster session, primarily, I plan to share actual classroom activities that I have done with my students and how I get started each year. I'll introduce several different kinds of robots and how you can use the same or different robot to do these activities. I also will show how teachers can use coding activities that are screen free to get beginning students started and to talk about the engineering design process and how to build on the basics while giving students choice in their learning.

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Supporting research

https://info.scholarschoice.ca/blog/robotics-in-early-childhood-education?hs_amp=true is a great article about using robotics in early childhood and STEM classes

Robotics in Early Childhood Education - Robotical https://robotical.io/blog/robotics-in-early-childhood-education/?currency=gbp/feed/

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Session specifications

Topic:
Creativity & curation tools
Grade level:
PK-2
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Coaches, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Attendee devices:
Devices not needed
Subject area:
Science, STEM/STEAM
ISTE Standards:
For Students:
Innovative Designer
  • Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
Computational Thinker
  • Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
Disclosure:
The submitter of this session has been supported by a company whose product is being included in the session
Related exhibitors:
Robotical

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