Lunch and Learn
Lunch and Learn
Lunch and Learn
Educational apps, software applications for smartphones and tablets, can be used for classroom instruction or personal learning. Edwards, Maloy, Verock, Woolf
(3/2017).
Using Technology with:
Tablets Can be a valued resource to promote critical Lap tops are used to develop skills
problem solving and independence. They are easy
to use, and can be introduced as early as preschool. through digits, images, audio, and text.
• Software programs and apps, learning • Computational thinking involves knowing
games, and intelligent tutoring programs how to use data, models, simulations, and
provide challenging problems for algorithmic thinking to formulate and solve
students to solve. Using technology, problems (Computer Science Teachers
Association, 2011). As computational thinkers,
students may consider different possible students engage in “solving problems,
solutions and then receive immediate designing systems, and understanding
feedback about their answers. They can human behavior” in ways that utilize
try again without feeling failure or being “concepts fundamental to computer science”
afraid to make mistakes. When their (Center for Computational Thinking, 2012).
initial responses are not correct, mistakes The national K–12 Computer Science
become ways to learn, not errors to avoid, Standards propose teaching computational
Edwards, Maloy, Verock, Woolf (3/2017) thinking as a core skill beginning in
elementary schoo Edwards, Maloy, Verock,
Woolf (3/2017).
Wrapping Things Up
IPADS are used
exclusively with
Cargo-Bot is an app
used on iPad. Older
elementary, emerging
middle, and high
school pupils create
code that move
robotic arm to bring
robot to colored
boxes and crates
within warehouse.
Technology For Teacher
Education is the gateway into technology, it provides a portal for us as educators to explore, create, and learn about so many things.
Everyday, teachers can find fulfillment with computer assistance in the classroom, managing lessons, and communicating with
participants, family, and key figures in each students life.
It is likely that technology will provide a forum for learner and education for all time.
References
Edwards, Moloy, Verock, Woolf, (3/2017).Transforming Learning With New Technologies, Ch. 7Read Ch. 7,
"Exploring Problem Solving and Inquiry Learning with Software, Apps, and Games.