CodIng WIth robotS
To be relevant to students, coding must have a purpose. Why am I doing this? What can I create? What problems can I solve? What careers can this lead me to? How do I get there? To explore this, some students learned to code by creating dance programs online and on the football field, others build games, designed apps or web pages, and some wrote code to solve problems. But it is very important to bring the physical world into the coding experience. To accomplish the task of seeing what the robot could do, students participated when they coded with robots to see what tasks they could program the robots to complete. Robotic technology is showing up in so many places and automating processes that had previously been done by the human workforce. Many students have
had the opportunity to explore robotics through clubs and FIRST Lego League teams. But not everyone has the opportunity, and it is important for all students to get to build and program
a robot. Across the district, robotics was infused deeply into the Hour of Code ™ across the grade levels, kindergarten through high school. When infusing into the Hour of Code ™, the foundation is being placed for many of the skills that students will encounter in the workforce. Students begin by learning using instructional tools, such as Coding Express, where they integrate coding and story telling, and then can rapidly move into the WeDo and EV3 robots. Students can begin with coding task that involve drop and drag programming, similar in feel to the on - line Code.org Hour of Code ™ activities, then can transition to the EV3.
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