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RCAC Symposium 2013An inquiry approach to elementary classrooms using Computer Science
Brian Aspinall@mraspinall
Grade 8 LKDSB
"Flipping Out"
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Exploring Buzzwords in Education
Traditional Classrooms
❖ Used to go to school because that's where the knowledge was
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Classrooms Today
❖ Knowledge and information is available from experts 24 hours a day
❖ Students know more than teachers about 21st century tools and trends
❖ A connected world
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Teaching Today
❖ It's not about the apps
❖ It's not about the technology
❖ It's about the process
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In a nutshell
❖ Through a class website or other medium, teachers share resources to students outside of the classroom
❖ Students watch, listen and interact outside of school
❖ By definition, students complete "homework" in class
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Why?
❖ Student engagement improves student learning
❖ In most cases rote and repetitive math is like Michael Myers - we want it to die but it won't go away
❖ ** (Some math concepts require rote learning eg: BEDMAS)
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Genius Hour
❖ Another buzzword in education
❖ Refers to a process in which students guide the learning through inquiry based tasks
❖ Teachers incorporate it into the curriculum where applicable
❖ Students publish to real world audiences (blogs, YouTube etc.)
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Kids today will work in jobs that do not yet exist, solving problems we don't yet know are problems with tools that haven't been invented
today.
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"Never memorize anything you can look up in a book"
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Why do we still ask these questions over and over?
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Why do we still ask these questions over and over?
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With the right scaffolding, even Siri can answer multi-step problems
We need to teach kids to view larger problems as
A sum of smaller ones
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2DMeasurement
❖ In the past:
❖ Find the (circumference / area) of a (circle / triangle) with the (radius, base, height) of 10 units
❖ Closed book, memorized formula
❖ Kids answered dozens of questions on a test
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❖Instead......
I only ask rich questionsOpen bookUse google
Use siriEtc.
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Results?
❖ I've had a repeat of students for two years
❖ Engagement has increased
❖ CAT scores have increased
❖ Behaviours almost non existent
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Almost every grade 8 student could answer this end of the grade 9 year question in early October.
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What's more important?
Remembering the formula for the
volume of a cylinderat the end of the semester
Or
Knowing how to identify this problem
using appropriate resourcesto find the formula
and derive a reasonable solution
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Character Development
❖ This process provides students the opportunity to demonstrate their learning skills
❖ Initiative, collaboration, self regulation, organization,
❖ Independent work, responsibility
❖ Work gets published to a real world audience, not an honour wall or some file folder or binder
❖ Parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles can follow
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Steve Jobs
❖ "Every kid should code because it teaches them how to think"
❖ "Coding is as important as literacy and numeracy"
❖ Coders are the new rock stars - Will I Am
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Coding in K-6Cargo-bot for
iOS
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Codea on iOS
Grades 7-12
Release of Responsibility
❖ Remember, your students must know the math concepts before they can begin in class tasks
❖ Teachers do not need to know how to code
❖ Instead they facilitate the process and encourage the problem solving process
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Tynker for K-8
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www.tynker.com
Code Academy for 7-12
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www.starterleague.com
Scratch for 4-8
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http://scratch.mit.edu
How to "Flip"
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www.clipkwik.com
www.scrawlar.com
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Teaching Today
❖ It's not about the apps
❖ It's not about the technology
❖ It's about the process
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