By far my favourite part of these Face 2 Face meetings is that I had\u00a0a\u00a0chance to\u00a0have relevant and meaningful conversations with passionate educators who are working on similar projects. I get to hear about\u00a0other peoples\u00a0ideas and actions and discuss plans moving forward for both of us.<\/p>\n
I have some smaller next steps that I will try in order to keep my plan rolling. Ruth Eichholtz had some great ideas about integrating mentorship into her Coding Club as a way to strengthen the community of coders and enrich\u00a0their learning. This is an angle\u00a0I hadn’t really thought of before and I hope to come up with more and more opportunities for my students to become mentors and be mentored in STEM. There are a few events on the horizon I can already think of!<\/p>\n
I also recently watched a fantastic webinar on Global Math Department<\/a>\u00a0looking at\u00a0Computational Thinking<\/a>\u00a0(the recording on Global Math Department might still be up). Although those ideas were framed differently than my action plan, there were some very similar big ideas (e.g. having students build\/use\u00a0tech to enable Math learning\/understanding). This opened my eyes to a lot of\u00a0research and work that is already being done in this area. Now that I know the key words, I can go on a big hunt for resources.<\/p>\n I am going to also experiment with some smaller coding tasks for my students in Math class with a little twist. For the first task I told them what to build. At this point\u00a0in our Patterning and\u00a0Analytic Geometry\u00a0unit the students have an understanding of the processes we use. I think they are ready to be able to identify which parts of the unit can be effectively automated by computers, and build those\u00a0tool themselves. Hopefully we can end by\u00a0discussing the question: “when is it appropriate to bring computers into the problem solving process?”.<\/p>\n How will I present my findings?\u00a0A scratch program would be fun, but probably an ineffective\u00a0use of the tool. I’ll leave this one as undecided for now.<\/p>\n Thanks again to Garth and Justin for a great day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By far my favourite part of these Face 2 Face meetings is that I had\u00a0a\u00a0chance to\u00a0have relevant and meaningful conversations with passionate educators who are working on similar projects. I get to hear about\u00a0other peoples\u00a0ideas and actions and discuss plans moving forward for both of us. I have some smaller next steps that I will … Continue reading “The Next Phase…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/andrewruston\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}