article thumbnail

5 Innovative Tech Projects for High Schoolers

Ask a Tech Teacher

Digital Storytelling Digital storytelling is one of the most shared content streaming options. Each second and minute, hundreds and thousands of videos flood the internet. These videos include audio narrations, animations, presentations, videography or photography, live interviewing, and discussions.

Robotics 312
article thumbnail

6 Digital tools that encourage computational thinking

Neo LMS

Also, through Google’s free curriculum, CS First, teachers and students can access over 1,000 instructional videos and lesson plans. Ozobot is an online tool that allows students to code robots included in their kits, which can be ordered online and offline. Read more: Are classroom robots the NextGen of learning? Conclusion.

Tools 366
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Top Ten Articles, Tips, and Reviews for 2023

Ask a Tech Teacher

This includes tech tips, website/app reviews, tech-in-ed pedagogy, how-tos, videos, and more. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

article thumbnail

5 Unplugged Hour of Code Activities

Ask a Tech Teacher

Detailed directions, project guides, educational resources, and videos can be found online in the Ward’s Science database. Though the video shows how to make the dough, you don’t have to do that. Break students into pairs and have one student write the steps required to do something (the video suggests stacking cups).

Robotics 269
article thumbnail

Root Robotics–Great Way to Extend Hour of Code

Ask a Tech Teacher

Now that you’ve engaged your students with awesome Hour of Code fun, I’m thrilled to introduce the incredible Root Robotics for going far beyond the hour! Root’s a versatile, engaging robotics and coding program that grows with students from pre-K up through grade 12. You can’t watch this video and not get excited about Root!

Robotics 231
article thumbnail

Looking for a Class Robot? Try Robo Wunderkind

Ask a Tech Teacher

There are a lot of options if you want to bring programmable robots to your classroom. It is a build-a-robot kit designed to introduce children ages six and up to coding and robotics as well as the fun of problem-solving and creative thinking. If I were to rate myself with robotics, I might be closer to a 5 than a 10.

Robotics 186
article thumbnail

6 Unplugged Hour of Code Activities

Ask a Tech Teacher

Detailed directions, project guides, educational resources, and videos can be found online in the Ward’s Science database. Though the video shows how to make the dough, you don’t have to do that. My Robotic Friends is a one-hour introductory non-computer activity where students learn to program a human robot.

Robotics 344