What can our littlest learners create when we put modern tools in their hands and give them opportunities to explore? Come to this workshop and discover what technology can do to transform learning in the primary classroom.
Harness the power of STEAM through coding and circuitry in your classroom. Don’t know anything/much about coding and circuits? Know something about coding and circuits, but don’t feel confident about that knowledge? That is okay! Attend this pre-conference session and learn all about the educational tool, Makey Makey. Appropriate for students in grades 1st Grade – 12th Grade, Makey Makey is a unique, hands-on, educational tool designed to help streamline the process of learning about coding and circuits. You’ll be amazed at how quickly your students can build and code games, projects, presentations, and other demonstrations of learning. You’ll be impressed at how quickly you can demonstrate the power of code and circuity in our daily lives and in careers. This hands-on session focuses on how to use Makey Makey, how to build code using a free, web-based program, and how to build circuits using Makey Makey. Participants will leave with information about Makey Makey and access to lessons using Makey Makey equipment.
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NGSS is here and educators are looking for ways to integrate the new framework into instruction. Come get some hands-on experience with STEM instruction that will engage your students and take learning to the next level!
You have 100s of great clips of school events on your phone, tablet, and camera. Now what do you do with them? Come learn about basic video editing with Adobe Premiere, Adobe Spark, and WeVideo. Take away resources you can immediately use.
Join the fun and come to this coding playground to explore and discover how Dash, Dot and Cue robotics are exciting our students’ learning worlds! Engage in computational thinking activities to easily replicate, and take back to your classroom, to make a Monday morning impact! These hands-on collaborative team activities will build a strong coding knowledge base, to empower your student's programming and coding pathways, while meeting computer science and digital fluency learning outcomes. Your mind will be spinning with new ideas of how to seamlessly integrate student-led challenges, thematic unit literacy activities, and to inspire your student's critical thinking and problem-solving skills related to their world!
#1 Station: Student-led challenge card and curriculum activities
#2 Station: Name That Tune with Algorythmics Dash Robot Band
#3 Station: Dash-ket Ball - Did You Say “Code - Shoot - and Score?”
#4 Station: Dot Creativity Kit and Coding for PreK
#5 Station: Code the California Adventure Path
#6 Station: Story Coding Blocks and UnPlugged Coding Activities
#7 Station: Cue the Middle School Robot
Join the fun and come to this coding playground to explore and discover how Dash, Dot and Cue robotics are exciting our students’ learning worlds! Engage in computational thinking activities to easily replicate, and take back to your classroom, to make a Monday morning impact! These hands-on collaborative team activities will build a strong coding knowledge base, to empower your student's programming and coding pathways, while meeting computer science and digital fluency learning outcomes. Your mind will be spinning with new ideas of how to seamlessly integrate student-led challenges, thematic unit literacy activities, and to inspire your student's critical thinking and problem-solving skills related to their world!
#1 Station: Student-led challenge card and curriculum activities
#2 Station: Name That Tune with Algorythmics Dash Robot Band
#3 Station: Dash-ket Ball - Did You Say “Code - Shoot - and Score?”
#4 Station: Dot Creativity Kit and Coding for PreK
#5 Station: Code the California Adventure Path
#6 Station: Story Coding Blocks and UnPlugged Coding Activities
#7 Station: Cue the Middle School Robot
Are you looking to motivate your girl students and young women students to pursue passionate careers in STEM? Join this session to discover innovative STEM approaches to empower the next generation of female leaders through a “startup” classroom culture through innovative teaching strategies and student centered approaches. This interactive session will showcase how motivate girls to “lean in” and further pursue their STEM passions within a maker culture of computational thinking, robotics, and the new literacy of coding. You will leave this session empowered with new ideas and a huge collection of resources to inspire, mentor and model STEM career choices. All the while preparing you as a teacher mentor to motivate K-12 girls and young women students to lead with passion-driven purpose, technical expertise and global women entrepreneurship passions and coding skills.
