Using Robotics to Teach Computational Thinking Practices
How can you make connections between what your students already know and what you want them to learn? The process of figuring out the best way to connect what students already know and what you want them to learn is a difficult problem. Over the years of teaching Robotics to …
Read MoreIntroducing Students to Text-Based Robot Programming
The first time that you introduce students to text based robot programming can be overwhelming for novice programmers. When they look at the code they see different colored words that they may or may not understand. The words are grouped in ways that initially have no rhyme or reason. The …
Read MoreUsing Robotics to Teach Computational Thinking Practices
Happy Computer Science Week! Computational Thinking (CT) has been identified as a new basic skill that all kids should develop. Most teachers, including myself, never formerly studied computer science or computational thinking and so it takes a bit of our personal time to decipher what this means to me as …
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