![]() Watch how Sphero has been used in the classroom Coding with Sphero I would have loved to have Sphero integrated into the Elementary Curriculum because I think it would have helped students get more acclimated to technology at a younger age, and it would’ve been brought about in a fun way to keep students engaged. Like with the Piper Kit, I was thinking “I’m not a Computer Science major! I’m an Elementary Education major!” However, after working with Sphero, I’ve realized that there are applications out there that can allow younger students to learn how to code, and in a fun way! At my elementary school, the only technology we ever really used was in the computer lab, and we only worked with computer games. Like most people, my mindset was that coding was only really used in Computer Science and was too complicated to try and introduce to younger students. The goal of this assignment was to see how coding can be used in areas of Education that aren’t just Computer Science and how it can be used to foster the 4 components of computational thinking: decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithm design.Īt first, I was hesitant to work with Sphero because I thought it would be really complicated. We learned how to work with coding on a basic level as we connected the Spheros to an iPad app and coded them to move through different maze patterns. Hi again! I’m back, with more information about how I’ve been using technology in the classroom! Last month, in ECI 201, we worked with Sphero Robots to connect computational thinking to a new concept: Coding. ![]()
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