How can effectively integrate Finch Robots into your teaching?
I feel like this is easy enough that younger grades could also use the Finch Robots. I think you just create your lesson age appropriately and your expectations also age appropriately and you can use the same app. from grades 1st-12th. Obviously the 12th grades Finch Robots are going to be more complex, then the 1st grades who were more simple.
What are your goals with regard to this topic?
I think this topic helped me step back and see that there are so many different ways we can assess our students knowledge of a subject. That we can do fun assessments that require creative thinking and problem solving, and that by doing so you are incorporating so much more into that lesson. Like you brought up with our Finch Robots, we were using Social Studies, Arts, English (Writing), and even Math. So I thought it was fun to see all the different things you can connect these assessments too.
How does this shape your vision for empowered learning for your students?
I feel like it helped me see that our students are capable of doing so much more than just writing a paper, or giving them a test to assess them. I know that for myself when you told us we were going to create this robot and make it move and talk, that I started thinking, "no way. I can't do that. This is way to hard, and I have never messed with this stuff before." But as you demonstrated, and showed us the app. to do so, it made more sense and I was able to change my attitude and start positive thinking like, "This will be fun! I have learned something new! This is not as hard as I thought it would be." I feel like this class is so great in showing us that you can take this creating robots and making them move, and talk and simplifying it to fit your classroom and making it age appropriate. It is nice to push your students to create things they never thought they could so I really enjoyed making our robots.
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