Occasional Observations of Traveling Technology Coach

Second time I am seeing the class this week. First time I pretended to be a robot and they programmed me to get to the lightswitch in the doorway…move forward x number of steps, turn left, turn right.

This time i had paper cutouts of robots and paper arrows for forward, turn left, turn right.

After showing the papers, i asked the kids if they had seen the website. They all said NO. So we went to the website on the smart board.

(FYI ..I was using a bluetooth touchpad to control the smartboard, to Wow effect from the students. They all wanted a try)

We went to beebot emulator website (beebot.terrapinlogo.com) on the smartboard. I demonstrated how it works. I showed a couple of moves using the blank card mat, then had two students come up to command the beebot using the alphabet mat.

Then they all went to the computers to do their own explorations and programming.

One student came up to code the beebot travelling to the girl’s room on the school mat.