Kelly's ISTE Standards

Failed Attempt: My partner and I planned to teach fractions using pizza slices and toppings. For this lesson, students would build fractions by decorating an embroidered cheese pizza with toppings and compare fractions using inequalities. My partner and I would give each student and different fraction and from there they must construct it and then compare them using <,=,>.  For o ur  pizza fraction  activity, several problems with the embroider machine occurred, ultimately leading us to throw away the entire idea and start all over. After three full days of trying to get the embroidery machine to work, it never did. The bobbin and the thread kept messing up, not many staff members were well educated on the embroidery machine. So our three days of work had nothing to show for. Financial Literacy lesson Activity Luckily my partner and I were able to come up with a new idea using her Cricut from home. With our new activity, we were able to teach a lesson to three diff...

15 Minute Exploration: As I was exploring the open-source software on Maker Ed  I came across the Wolfram Programming Lab .  I was drawn to this specific source because it stated how I would be able to learn how to program and code. I explored many different types of games on wolfram but since I am still in the beginner stage I decided on a simple game. The game I played was Get Pictures of Things , with this game and several others it required no account and it's free of charge.  The game will provide you an example and a question. The first question is, Run the code to get a picture of a cow, try other common animals? It provides you with a "sample code" in this case it's a picture of a cow. Next what I did was try another animal. I clicked the "+" symbol and then clicked "free-form input." I am now able to put in a code, for my first animal I typed "a picture of a cat," and to enable the code you must press shift enter. Once you press...

How can you envision addressing  ISTE Computational Thinking standards  in your explorations today? •  Standard 1: Empowered Learner . Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies. •  Standard 4: Innovative Designer . Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful, or imaginative solutions.  •  Standard 5: Computational Thinker . Students develop and employ strategies for understanding and solving problems in ways that leverage the power of technological methods to develop and test solutions. •  Standard 6: Creative Communicator.  Students choose the appropriate tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication. As I explored the iCreate lab I chose to focus on the 3D printer i...

  DroneBlocks Lab  Kelly Ramirez-Prado & Aleksandra Johnson A: Introduction to Tello Drone Programming  An Overview of Tello and DroneBlocks  Tello: small, affordable, does not have GPS (internal sensors instead), works best indoors Hello Tello! DroneBlocks provides range of blocks to appropriately code Tello’s flight behavior  Program/Mission: idea that blocks can be executed individually or in a group Since Tello uses sensors and flight control logic instead of GPS, the accuracy is not precise Sequential Logic: each block executed in a specific order Yaw: rotation around vertical axis (Tello spins 360 degrees) Land: land at current location  A Box Mission  Flying in a box pattern  Nose of drone pointed forward (purple)  Direction of flight (turquoise)  Loop and Flip  Variables for the Win  Adding Logic with if/else Statements  Land in your Hand  B: Tell & Art Presents: Dance  Students will learn how to ...

DroneBlocks Simulator Experience September 13     Prior to working in the lab, we were asked to explore drone blocks and take notes. My partner Aleksandra and I were able to contribute all sorts of information to have with us during lab. (check out these notes in my previous blog post) September 15     Today in lab, we were able to use the drones now having some sort of background information. I partnered up with Aleksandra and together we were able to program a drone to fly and do tricks. At first, we followed the steps listed below to connect the drone. Due to some confusion concerning which app to use or what each blinking light meant it took a minute to connect our drone. Once our drone flashed a green light it meant that we were now connected.      With the help of drone blocks, we started off with a simple code to get things started. There were many ways to program the drone. Before each mission, the code MUST have a takeoff and land effect as t...

The Objective for the icreate lab is to have students assemble and program a snail to glow and create sound using WeDo 2.0 programming Introduction:  As the educator, I would create a scenario like a storyline that would engage the students. For example, a baby snail has lost its family in the garden, help the baby snail find its way back home using signals and sound. Model: As a group, we start off by assembling the snail. Students can participate by gathering materials and building the snail using the step-by-step instructions. *Before building make sure to put batteries in the smarthub (body of the snail). Software:  Once the snail is assembled students are now ready to start programming. First, we start off by connecting the model to a device using the WeDo Lego education app (already pre-downloaded). Push the green button on the smarthub and it will flash blue light to let us know it's connected. Once connected I will help the students to program the snail to do a simple ...