Since most of the teachers already felt comfortable with Book Creator, and could
imagine using it in their classrooms beyond a single coding activity, it provided a great opportunity to introduce the tenets and process of coding without having to introduce a new app or program.
Not exact matches
I think of the Rube Goldberg machines built by engineering students
in our makerspace, and I
imagine the
classroom furniture and prototypes being built by the students
in my own Art and Tech elective class, projects that start with 3D models and prototypes and end
in functional designs that are
in use throughout the school.
Redwood Heights teacher Colleen Gravelle hacked two thinking routines: Parts, Purposes, & Complexities and
Imagine If, to create her own thinking prompts that asked her first graders to think more deeply about the purpose of the
use of a particular space
in their
classroom.
The ELD program
used at
Imagine Hope Community Charter School is the Pullout / Push -
in classroom model.
Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal
in a mine, or fish for salmon
in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a
classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist
in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while
using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world
in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen
in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.
Imagine a school where the leaders consistently model good practices, proactively train staff, welcome parents as partners, focus on relationships (student - student, adult - student, adult - adult),
use positive discipline policies, and invest time and resources
in and out of the
classroom.