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“Tech-Blog With Me” Tech- Blog with me assigns blog posting in 2 areas. Students can follow the assignments, combine ideas, or adjust and adapt the lessons to enjoy. The first area is Computer Science and Tech concepts, the second area is current events. Join here for free: https://classroom.google.com/c/NzQ4MjI2MjE4NzQ5?cjc=5pvei3h

“Tech-Blog With Me”. Students can access the Google Interactive Classroom for free with this invitation. This free class starts Feb 3, 2025.

Google classroom code: 5pvei3h.

Link: https://classroom.google.com/c/NzQ4MjI2MjE4NzQ5?cjc=5pvei3h

Email me anytime with any questions or concerns. elainegriggs@k12stemclub.com

Elementary school students love learning STEM. Why do they love doing experiments? Why do they love computer programming, inventing, and solving complex problems? In my opinion kids just love to create and be creative in a safe environment. What do I mean by a safe environment?

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Take a look at this video we shared in class today and talked about before our codeTalk activity. There is so much going on in this video. Firstly the woman computer scientist is highlighted in time for Women’s History month. In addition, the metaphor comparing computer science to learning how to swim to explain systemic racism in education

BlogPost1 TeacherBlog March 10, 2023

I am starting this blog with my robotics students this morning while they are reflecting in their own blogs. I introduced a strategy called code-talk, to learn to read, write and understand code. We are learning the C programming language using BotBall Wombat robots. (https://www.kipr.org/botball) Using a program to control servo motors I made the program available on paper, on the projected screen and digitally in Google Classroom in a servo-motor lab. The program is in the C programming language and also in a flow-chart in pseudocode along side. Going around the room each student read a line of code and we talked about and answered questions about functions, variables, parameters, syntax, abstraction and meaning about each line. Students blogged in their own blogsites, reflecting about the experience- answering their own who, what, how, when, where and why questions about “code-talk”. Students shared one line from their blog posts and agreed code-talk helped them feel more confident about reading, writing and running programs on their robots. Next week we will make our servo arms wave and go to positions needed to pick up and move objects around a game board. I have so much fun making programming understandable to students at all levels. Have fun today!!

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