Hello everyone! 😋😎💚✌👏
Due to the inconvenience of coronavirus, children were not able
to come to the university for “Un día en el cole de mi maestro”. We felt so
disappointed because we brought all our materials and our ilusion for the
activity. However, life is not always as you expect, there are setbacks and you
have to adapt to them. In this case we have done that by the plannification of
a different activity which futfils the same objectives and the original and can
be done online.
Before explaining the activity we have came up with, we would like to share with you the advices that our colleagues from TIC-Chers group. It was very enriching to work with them and they told us ideas for making our activity more interesting for children so engagement is greater (such as suggesting a dynamic and confident interaction between the one who gives the explanation and the ones who receive it) . We also had a funny moment while developing our activities with them.
Not everything was good so we would like to highlight something. Of course we remember that we did not start working at the time and it is all our fault. However, as it may have seemed to, this was not because of lazyness, but because of misunderstanding. At the begining we thought that we had just to explain to our colleagues what did our activity consist on. Once we realised about what we actually had to do it as if the others were our pupils, we started doing it without complaining. Of course we know that this does not exempt us from liability, but we just wanted to explain our view.
Now we want to explain our adapted activity:
The idea is that the activity takes place through Skype. First,
the teacher (one of us) needs to explain children what must they do. He or she
is going to explain how does an Internet web page work. It is called scratch
and in that web students can encode a cat so he carries out different actions
(movements, sounds…).
After that, the teacher will give them several indications and
children will have to reproduce them in their own computers. If they have got
any doubt the teacher can solve it through Skype, but the students are the ones who need to investigate and discover what sequences must they establish to follow the different indications which the teacher gives them. They must also choose different characters, all of them can not encode the cat that appears at the begining. We, as teachers, are going to reward originality.
Finally, children will have to record the screen to prove
that they have done everything that the teacher required. They will send it to
the teacher by email so he can check that all of the students did on a correct
way the hole activity. Due to the fact that the teacher has not told them the exact sequence they had to encode, there is no cheating, because the pupil needs to be able to encode the web page by himself or herself.
While doing this, children would surely have learnt to manage
with technology and to establish an event and a sequence, encoding the cat
instead of Codey Rocky (it is almost the same and both of them have the same
function, the only different is that the cat is not physical, it is digital).
This means that the main objective of the activity is going
to be achieved by children so, although we prefer to do it as the rest of the
days, it can be a good alternative for this exceptional circumstances.
The web page will be the following one:
Now, before allowing you to practice with our majestic web, we would like to explain it according to the principles of ACAD framework:
-Epistemic design/ tasks and minitasks developed:
- Social design/grouping and roles:
-SET DESIGN:
DESCRIPTION.
Due to the measures taken to stop the coronavirus epidemic we have seen
forced to leave our usual place of work and remain isolated at home,
therefore we must adapt the “ROBOTICS” activity so that children can
learn to program without leaving home.
Since the children do not have their own robot, the activity will have to be done
without involving the use of these. To do this, instead of working with the "MBlock" program,
which we used to program “Codey Rocky”, we will use “Scratch” a page
free in which children can create games and animations in a very format
similar to MBlock.
To teach children how to use this program, we will make a live video on
our YouTube channel at a previously agreed time, in which the children
Through live chat you can send us your questions as they go
emerging.
DEVELOPMENT.
Duration: 40 minutes.
We will start the live with a brief introduction to the activity and a
presentation of the program: “This activity was originally intended for
do it with the “Codey Rocky” robots, however given the current situation we have
had to make some changes. As the main objective was to teach
program, instead of using robots, we will use a program to create animations
and games, very similar to the one we would use to program robots. Scratch is a
free program and very easy to use, it is possible to program a series of
elements to create games and animations. ”
Later, already on the Scratch page we will teach the children the functions
basic, such as how to start a sequence (set of actions that in this case the
Scratch kitty is going to perform), make the cat move using the keyboard,
change the color, make it make sounds ...
During the last part of the session we will create a game (in tutorial plan) so that
they following our steps create a similar game at the same time.
Finally we will show you where you can find other tutorials to learn how to
make other games.
We hope that you like what we have just purposed and please, stay in your houses!!
-Epistemic design/ tasks and minitasks developed:
First, the teacher (one of us) needs to explain children what must they do. He or she is
going to explain how does an Internet web page work. It is called scratch and in that web
students can encode a cat so he carries out different actions (movements, sounds…).
going to explain how does an Internet web page work. It is called scratch and in that web
students can encode a cat so he carries out different actions (movements, sounds…).
After that, the teacher will give them several sequences and children will have to reproduce
them in their own computers. If they have got any doubt the teacher can solve it through
Skype.
them in their own computers. If they have got any doubt the teacher can solve it through
Skype.
Finally, children will have to record the screen to prove that they have done everything that
the teacher required. They will send it to the teacher by email so he can check that all of the
students did on a correct way the hole activity.
the teacher required. They will send it to the teacher by email so he can check that all of the
students did on a correct way the hole activity.
- Social design/grouping and roles:
Due to the impossibility of being able to work with other students, because we are working online, we have considered that the most appropriate thing for them is to work on an individual basis, thus, assuming all the roles of the group and its responsibility.
However, if they have any questions, they can contact the teacher at any time throughout the Skype network.
-SET DESIGN:
DESCRIPTION.
Due to the measures taken to stop the coronavirus epidemic we have seen
forced to leave our usual place of work and remain isolated at home,
therefore we must adapt the “ROBOTICS” activity so that children can
learn to program without leaving home.
Since the children do not have their own robot, the activity will have to be done
without involving the use of these. To do this, instead of working with the "MBlock" program,
which we used to program “Codey Rocky”, we will use “Scratch” a page
free in which children can create games and animations in a very format
similar to MBlock.
To teach children how to use this program, we will make a live video on
our YouTube channel at a previously agreed time, in which the children
Through live chat you can send us your questions as they go
emerging.
DEVELOPMENT.
Duration: 40 minutes.
We will start the live with a brief introduction to the activity and a
presentation of the program: “This activity was originally intended for
do it with the “Codey Rocky” robots, however given the current situation we have
had to make some changes. As the main objective was to teach
program, instead of using robots, we will use a program to create animations
and games, very similar to the one we would use to program robots. Scratch is a
free program and very easy to use, it is possible to program a series of
elements to create games and animations. ”
Later, already on the Scratch page we will teach the children the functions
basic, such as how to start a sequence (set of actions that in this case the
Scratch kitty is going to perform), make the cat move using the keyboard,
change the color, make it make sounds ...
During the last part of the session we will create a game (in tutorial plan) so that
they following our steps create a similar game at the same time.
Finally we will show you where you can find other tutorials to learn how to
make other games.
We hope that you like what we have just purposed and please, stay in your houses!!
Best wishes and stay strong, “The Outsiders” ✊✊✊
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