Middle School Robotics – Episode 4: My Philosophy on Teaching Robotics

Middle School Robotics – Episode 4: My Philosophy on Teaching Robotics

This is episode 4 of a short series entitled Middle School Robotics. Tried something different with this episode as I sort of gave an overview of the course and my philosophy behind it, as well as a look at what we're currently working on. Filmed at The Khabele School in Austin, TX. Most of my project resources were taken from here: http://ev3lessons.com/lessons.html Music by Ratatat - http://www.ratatatmusic.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItfImLcfOYQ
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Exploring the Learn-To-Code Options

Exploring the Learn-To-Code Options

I've helped lead the Technology Club for the past two years at my school.  The twenty 4th and 5th graders would meet once a week after school for about an hour to work through various tech projects.  This past year, we spent time learning how to screencast as well completing a few movie-making projects.  Near the end of the school year last year I saw the now famous Code.org video (above) pushing for computer programming education and I thought that our Tech Club would be an awesome avenue to try this out!  I began to explore my options. I have…
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