WeDo Lego Bots
WeDo Lego Bots
5b- Empower students to select personally meaningful computational projects.
1a: Set professional learning goals to explore and apply teaching strategies for integrating CT practices into learning activities in ways that enhance student learning of both the academic discipline and CS concepts.
1d: Develop resilience and perseverance when approaching CS and CT learning experiences, build comfort with ambiguity and open-ended problems, and see failure as an opportunity to learn and innovate.
Today I had the chance to explore the WeDo 2.0 Lego Bots kit. I enjoyed being allowed to pick my own design for my Lego creation I found the assembly of the Legos to be easy, however, connecting to the bot through an app was difficult. I could not find the app I needed to download or could not get it on my phone which is why I think Standard 1D goes well with this experience. It was fun watching everyone else working together to find a solution.
In my own classroom, younger kids would be exploring how to build their devices and the older kids would have more control over setting up their devices to link to the bots. It teaches rules and step-by-step strategies as well as team building. As a teacher, I see potential for this activity to support my content areas.
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Hello Allison! I too built the lego fan. Your statement in regard to how your classroom would be ran based on the grade level supports a key point from this lab. That point is that regardless of age or grade, the WeDo 2.0 Lego Kit and sites offer accomadations or modifications to allow every student to participate. I see you included 5b, but forgot to also add in 1c. In addition to standard 5b and 1c, I chose to include 4d - Create CS and CT learning environments that value and encourage varied viewpoints, student agency, creativity, engagement, joy and fun. I felt our lab embodied this standard perfectly because the environment encouraged varied viewpoints through allowing us to choose what to build and how to code our items, creativity because we were allowed to be creative in choosing what we built, engagement throughout the whole activity, and overall the lab was super fun.
ReplyDeleteHi Allison! I also choose to build a fan! I choose to to the cooling fan because this was my first time ever using the WeDo 2.0 Lego kit so I wanted to make sure I did something challenged enough for me to figure out. I am sorry you missed out on the opportunity to try different coding techniques, but I am thrilled you had a joy building your cooling fan and watching your other classmates practice their coding. I can see where you ISTE standard 5b comes into play where you found what you created meaningful. I also included 1c and after a having a table mate discuss that 4d really fit with our lab today. I as well put that into my standards. In this lab we were able to create CT and CS learning and discover a fast amount of personally learning networks.
ReplyDeleteHi Allison! I decided to build the fan as well. At first I thought it would be simplest and best introduction; however, I witnessed how complex the coding could get. You should definitely try to add more coding, the next time you are able to try. The activity is great for students of all ages and grade levels because teacher and peer assistance can be accommodated as needed. The WeDo 2.0 activity is a great activity to empower students. In addition to 1c and 5b, I added 1d as well due to me having a lot of learning to do through trial and error. This lab is a great way to get students to try and learn from their mistakes.
ReplyDeleteHello Allison! I too did the cooling fan because I thought it would be a good way to expose myself to this new technology. At first I thought since this wouldn't take a lot of time to assemble that maybe it would be easy to program as well. I too got the problem of not being able to download the app needed to program the bot due to having a Macbook. As of right now I only uploaded 1c into my blog. I will in the future add more ISTE standards onto it as soon I get to explore with the bot next lab day!
ReplyDeleteHey Allison! I also had a difficult time connecting my device to the LEGO robot, so I think that you could have included "1d: Develop resilience and perseverance when approaching CS and CT learning experiences, build comfort with ambiguity and open-ended problems, and see failure as an opportunity to learn and innovate.". I used this one because I think its important to use our difficulties and technical issues, so I think it would be a great ISTE standard to include.
ReplyDeleteHey Allison wonderful blog! Another standard I feel would connect well with this standard would be as follows.
ReplyDelete1d: Develop resilience and perseverance when approaching CS and CT learning experiences, build comfort with ambiguity and open-ended problems, and see failure as an opportunity to learn and innovate.
I feel this way because this lab provides a lot of opportunities to challenge students.