Reflection is a powerful tool. And during this period of “Post Online Learning,” it is even more essential to take a moment to reflect on all that has happened during this chaotic or sometimes stressful time. Reflection helps us sift through all the emotions we experienced during these moments and identify, label, and sort these experiences.
October 11th, 2021
By Sean Tibor
colab, education, google, python
Starting in September 2021, students in K-12 schools began receiving warnings that their access to Google Colab was denied. Increasingly frustrating was that the issue was inconsistent across student accounts. One student could be happily coding away, while the student sitting next to them was unable to access their notebooks. At our school, our technology admins could see that Google Colab was enabled as a marketplace app for all students.
October 4th, 2021
By Sean Tibor
bingo, circuitpython, gamification
As we're teaching using the Adafruit CircuitPlayground, the same errors come up over and over. In order to make this less stressful and more fun, we've made a game out of it!
August 3rd, 2021
By Sean Tibor
hacking, hardware, home assistant
In part 2 of this project, Sean hacks our classroom's hand sanitizer dispenser to encourage students to practice better hand hygiene. This project uses Home Assistant, the Amazon Echo, and an ESP8266 running ESPHome to make it much more fun to sanitize your hands.
July 30th, 2021
By Kelly Paredes
coding, computer science, digital citizenship, digital footprint, digital skills, iste, standards
Although a coding curriculum lends itself easily to incorporating many digital citizenship skills, even the best Computer Science course may not always find ways to directly teaching them. However, here are some easy ways to ensure that you focus on the three categories of digital citizenship.
Unlocking talent and growing your coding knowledge can be accomplished with a very important process of Drill and Skill. Get a brief peak of growing myelin, from the book "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle.
Pattern recognition techniques are a powerful tool for enhancing students' comprehension of coding concepts, leveraging the brain's innate affinity for patterns to foster a deeper understanding of code.
