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Strategies for Educators Using Microcontrollers in the Classroom
This document outlines strategies and goals for educators to effectively implement microcontrollers in a maker-centric, project-based learning classroom. It emphasizes the importance of understanding circuits, programming literacy, and provides resource links for lesson plans and collaboration tools. Additionally, it encourages the integration of creative thinking skills akin to the kindergarten learning approach to foster innovation among students.
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- 1. Strategies & Tips-- Microcontrollers For Educators #sparkfun Brian Huang @bri_huang brian.huang@sparkfun.com #sparkfun http://bit.ly/SFE_edcamp14
- 2. “Teachers that make…makegreat teachers” - Anonymous What will you make in your classroom?
- 3. Goals Objectivesof Microcontrollers for Educators 1. ...implement a Maker-centric classroom built around project-based-learning (PBL). 2. ...understand basics behind electricity and circuits as well as how to teach these topics.. 3. ...develop a general fluency and literacy with programming in Arduino, Processing, and Scratch. 4. ...develop a set of lesson plans, activities, and projects to use in our classroom integrating microcontrollers, programming, and electronics.
- 4. Pause… Before we moveany further, let’s make sure that we all know each other in this room? Please introduce yourself to the person(s) sitting in your general vicinity. Tell them a few things about yourself, maybe: – where you’re from – what you teach – why you’re here – what do you want to know more about?
- 5. Rough Outline ● Wheredo we start? ● Circuits 101 -- Copper Tape, Multimeters, and Ohm’s Law ● STEAM focused integration -- collaborations ● Programming -- a new literacy focus ● Best Practices for the Maker Classroom... ● Resources: ○ learn.sparkfun.com ○ teachengineering.org ○ teachers@arduino.cc forum
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- 8. Kindergarten Reflection All IReally Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten* This paper argues that the "kindergarten approach to learning" -- characterized by a spiraling cycle of Imagine, Create, Play, Share, Reflect, and back to Imagine -- is ideally suited to the needs of the 21st century, helping learners develop the creative-thinking skills that are critical to success and satisfaction in today's society. What was your reaction to the statements, claims, and suggestions in this reading? How will this influence your teaching?
- 9. Where do westart?
- 10. Invent to LearnResources http://www.inventtolearn.com/resources/
- 11. Circuits 101 --Copper Tape, Multimeters, and Ohm’s Law
- 12. What is aCircuit? Circuit = CIRCLE https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-a-circuit/overview
- 13. What is aCircuit? Circuit = CIRCLE https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/what-is-a-circuit/overview VCC GND
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- 15. STEAM focused integration-- collaborations
- 17. Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy-- Light Sculpture
- 18. No Permission Required… BringingSTEAM to life in K-12 Schools
- 19. Program or beprogrammed... http://processing.org Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community. Since 2001, Processing has promoted software literacy within the visual arts and visual literacy within technology. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach computer programming fundamentals within a visual context, Processing evolved into a development tool for professionals. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production.
- 20. Program or beprogrammed... Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ Snap http://snap.berkeley.edu/ CargoBot (for iPad) Python http://www.learnpython.org/ Logo https://ccl.northwestern. edu/netlogo/ Java / C / C++ / .NET
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- 22. Prototyping / Design& Documentation www.fritzing.org
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- 24. Thoughts Projects Ideas What do you want to work on today? Is there someone here that you’d like to work with? Are you stuck? Looking to work with someone today? Let’s find someone! Think, Share, Reflect… What do you want to know more about?
- 25. Best Practices forMaker Classes 1. Get Organized -- Bins & Diagrams
- 26. Best Practices forMaker Classes 2. Charging Stations
- 27. Best Practices forMaker Classes 3. Label where everything goes
- 28. Best Practices forMaker Classes 4. Collaborate with others. Leverage the “art” of everything!
- 29. Best Practices forMaker Classes 5. Less Us, More Them (LUMT)
- 30. Best Practices forMaker Classes What other ideas do we have???
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- 32. Hints / Tipson using Fritzing Hold down the SHIFT key