{"id":75,"date":"2015-04-21T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/?p=75"},"modified":"2015-04-21T14:50:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:50:01","slug":"plan-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/2015\/04\/21\/plan-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan In Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been an eventful year, and, not surprisingly, things did not turn out as I had planned. Most of my more sobering moments revolved around teaching computer science, which I enjoy immensely but in my second year realized that my approach was a bit wrong-headed. \u00a0This dovetailed with the ideas that were percolating due to my involvement in C21, so I decided to try out a combination of Design Thinking, independent learning and drag-and-drop coding (in the form of MIT’s App Inventor) to try to do several things at once:<\/p>\n

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  1. Try to make programming more relevant, and hence more attractive to a wider audience.<\/li>\n
  2. Give a seemingly-different context to concepts that we have studied in the first two terms to help students see that the principles are language-independent.<\/li>\n
  3. Give students a more sandbox-like environment, so that they can more easily be creative in their work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The real test of this approach will be the outcome of their app-building project, which will begin next week and take the rest of the school year. \u00a0Watch this space for updates.<\/p>\n

    Here<\/a>\u00a0is a link to my reflect-deck; thanks to everyone who made C21 a rich and rewarding experience; you all seem to be very good at your jobs, it’s very inspiring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s been an eventful year, and, not surprisingly, things did not turn out as I had planned. Most of my more sobering moments revolved around teaching computer science, which I enjoy immensely but in my second year realized that my approach was a bit wrong-headed. \u00a0This dovetailed with the ideas that were percolating due to … Continue reading “Plan In Action”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-plan","category-classroom-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/adamgregson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}