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10 Unusual Hour of Code Projects

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Human robot. Human Robot. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Ask a student (or several) to explain required steps using another teacher as the ‘robot’. For example, use the stages in an animal’s lifecycle.

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

If you are wondering how it works in practice, here’s a good example: Duolingo is a free mobile app that helps students to learn foreign languages. The same gamification principle counts for many other subjects and the corresponding mobile apps, making this learning strategy universal. Robot teachers. Digital libraries.

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15 Unusual Projects for Hour of Code

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Human robot. Users create a recipe by choosing a trigger channel from IFTTT’s library, then a trigger, and finally an action channel. For example: IF they post a photo on Instagram THEN share it on Twitter. This is so simple, you’re going to love it: Open the QR Code reader on your phone or mobile device.

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10 Unusual Projects for Hour of Code

Ask a Tech Teacher

Human robot. Human Robot. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Ask a student (or several) to explain required steps using another teacher as the ‘robot’. For example, use the stages in an animal’s lifecycle.

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10 Unusual Projects for Hour of Code

Ask a Tech Teacher

Human robot. Human Robot. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Ask a student (or several) to explain required steps using another teacher as the ‘robot’. For example, use the stages in an animal’s lifecycle.

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TEACHER VOICE: Children displaced by Hurricane Harvey get a warm welcome from teachers, students — and a couple of robots in this Texas school library

The Hechinger Report

In the library, we’re ready to let them talk about what has happened. This is not your grandmother’s library. It isn’t only books that greet our students here, but also two friendly, coding-proficient robots named Dot and Dash. As conversation starters, we have a number of books that help inform children about the crisis.

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How Can I bring Robotics Into My Curriculum? Programming Robots with SPRK Lightning Lab #AskTheTechCoach

TeacherCast

Lightning Lab will make it even easier to use the SPRK robot in the classroom because students can access te instructions and starter code inside of the app. Sphero makes app-enabled, teachable robots. To get started users download the mobile app to program their robot. https://sprk.sphero.com/. About CWIST.