# T5.31 - Coding, Robotics, & Student Voice This interactive session will focus on how coding and robotics can be integrated in the classroom and utilized to engage and empower students. Particularly for students who struggle with traditional paper and pen tasks, robotics can be utilized to differentiate instruction and provide greater ownership. In the session I hope to provide participants with the opportunity to try out EV3 and We Do robotics as well as various apps and websites for coding. In addition to providing lesson ideas, I will share my personal experiences with teaching coding and robotics. This including taking an elementary robotics team to a high school and university tournament. My robotics team was the youngest team and first elementary team to ever participate in the UOIT Engineering Robotics Competition in the event's 10 year history. Despite some of the students having behavioural and academic challenges, the students did extremely well in the competition placing first in many rounds and making it to the semi finals. After winning a trophy and being interviewed by City TV, the students found a new sense of confidence and pride in themselves. This led to improvements in their academic performance at school. These students, who before never felt like they had any voice in the school, now have a huge voice not only in the school but also in our board as they are now helping to develop training videos for the EV3 robotics. These videos will be used to help to train all teachers receiving robotics kits in our board.

1. CODING, ROBOTICS,
& STUDENT VOICEHillary Rogers, DCDSB
OAME 2016

2. Zamboni Kid
• https://www.facebook.com/FatherlyHQ/videos/9
30752670311209/

3. • Coding & robotics
• Embracing uncertainty
• Empowering student voice
• Coding & Project based learning
• Tools and resources
PresentationOverview

4. Visit
hillary2210.wix.com/OAME
for slides, documents, and links to all
the tools and resources shared
during the presentation

5. @Hillary_2210
Grade1#FrImm

7. What is coding?
• “Code is the list of instructions given to any
computer in order for it to perform the
desired actions. Every time you switch on a
PC, a mobile phone, a calculator, even a
microwave, code is being run.”

8. Robotics

9. Game Design

10. Animation

11. Web Dev

12. Why should we care about coding?

13. Why should we care about coding?

19. Power to the pupil
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
v4kQqJfmfU

20. “that is
literally old
school”

21. Old School

22. Traditional Classroom
Teacher led instruction
Students are passive
Whole group

23. Traditional Classroom
Teacher led instruction
Students are passive
Whole group
Application is homework
Individual

24. Traditional Classroom
Teacher led instruction
Students are passive
Whole group
Application is homework
Individual
Students in rows
No collaboration
Worksheets and textbooks
Content focused rather than skills Real world application No differentiation

25. UTILIZING
CODING TO
ENHANCE
CURRICULA

26. Robotics&Curriculum

27. Robotics&Curriculum

28. Skill Development
 Analyzing and interpreting
 Making connections
 Critical thinking
 Problem solving
 Creativity
 Communication
 Reasoning
 Teamwork
 Leadership
 Planning
 Organizing
 Initiative
 Responsibility
 Inquiry and investigating
 Spatial reasoning

29. PROJECT BASED LEARNING
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMCZvGe
sRz8

30. CODING
IN THE
CLASSROOM

31. Robotics: Mindstorm EV3
• Grades 4-8
• Creating scripts from computer (available in
French and English)
• OR controlling from iPad

32. Robotics: We Do
• Grades 1 – 3
• Software available in French and English

33. Apps for Coding
 Scratch Jr
 Hopscotch
 Kodable
 Daisy the Dino
 Tickle
 Tynker
 Game Press
 Code-academy
 Python3
 Ruby
 Codes
 Cargo-bot

34. Apps by Level

35. Websites
Scratch.com
Code.org (Hour of Code)
Tynker.com
• Madewithcode.com

36. Lesson Ideas

37. Enhancing Project Based Learning
EV3

38. Engineering and Design: Sumobot
competition

39. Primary:
We Do Showcase

42. THANK YOU
@Hillary_2210
http://hillary2210.wix.com/oame