Sandra Chow:Hi everyone! Welcome!
Sandra Chow:If you can hear the music type in the chat so we know your sound is working.
Nicola:i hear your voice not music
Nicola:yes i do
Kyle:There's the twang!!!
Warren:Funky
Jerry:oh, its funky alright!
Peter:I can hear it too.
Jerry:Jerry - Technology Resource Teacher in Thunder Bay (TBCDSB)
Lisa Floyd:We can hear it;)
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Hi Jerry!
Nicola:Nicola - elementary teacher from Ottawa
Christina:Christina Lucciantonio from Lively. Hear the music. Teach grade 4.
Andrew:Andrew from Gatineau - National Educational consultant in Coding
Jerry:Hi Stacey! A fellow Northerner!
Tyson:Tyson- Learning & Tech Teacher- Beautiful Ottawa Valley!
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:We have to stick together!
Warren:Warren from Winnipeg. Gr 7 & 8.
Lisa Floyd:I recognize some of these people:)
Kyle:Down here in Niagara! Tech Integrator
Peter:Gr 7 teacher (Math, History, Dance/Drama, Music), Toronto
Matt:Grade 7 teacher from Ottawa
Warren::)
Elizabeth:classroom teacher but thanks to a TLLP I along with two other primary teachers can share with teachers in other schools in our district what we know about coding and robotics
Donna:Donna London Ontario Special Education Teacher
Erin O'Rourke:If you are having issues with your audio, go to the Meeting Menu and going through the Audio Setup Wizard and this might help to resolve any issues you might have.
Rola:Conratulation Erin:)
Erin O'Rourke:www.tvo.org/teachontario
Rola:Rola from Ottawa and excited to join tonight
Christina:They are a dynamic duo. And bet their kids are dynamic too.
Andrew:Elizabeth - where are you located?
Elizabeth:Bottom of the Province - Kingsville Ontario
Andrew:Cool. Would love to see your TLLP
Elizabeth:Andrew, what about you?
Andrew:Gatineau - Ottawa
Elizabeth:OK. Not sure how we can connect. Via email?
Andrew:@afmcdnL
Andrew:Twitter
Christina:C
Nicola:b
Jerry:Some
Jenn Benedetti:hello! Jenn Benedetti Grade 5/6 teacher!
Kyle:D
Warren:C
Matt:B
Sandra Chow:Feel free to use the poll
Peter:B
Donna:B+ C-
Elizabeth:C. Can;'t ever know it all!
Kiran:B
Sandra Chow:please feel free to type your questions here.
Jenn Benedetti:B
Sandra Chow:Not long. Thorough definition.
Noel Abraham:Do you recommend any resource to read more about computational thinking?
Sandra Chow:Please keep these questions coming. We will collect so we can answer them at the end.
Lisa Floyd:We'llbe sure to talk about that Noel:)
Lisa Floyd:Questions are super helpful so that we can add to the teachontario hub:)
Donna:Im here
Noel Abraham:which tools are suitable for Grade 1 to 3?
Lisa Floyd:great question:) Scratchjr and beebot
Lisa Floyd:dash and dot
Kiran:Do any of you know if your Board has an inventory of say, Bots or Makey Make?
Lisa Floyd:Many of the boards I work with do, but would be great to hear from everyone on here
Christina:Sudbury CDSB has spheros and ozobots.
Jerry:At TBCDSB, we are deploying Dash and Dots to our K-6 schools. ten kits each with dedicated ipads
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Jerry- good idea- complete kids- reduce the obstacles
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:That's what we did. Expensive but worth it
Kiran:That's good to know. I need to check if TDSB has kits to borrow so we can play.
Melissa Pennarun: Our school and schools in Peel do. So many options depending on students' ages. We are K-5.
Kyle:Younger Ss really like using Ozobots in my district.
Sandra Chow:Dash & Dot also has an amazing competition running every year suitable for Elementary
Jerry:What is a good grade range for Dash/Dots?
Lisa Floyd:usually it's recommended up to grade 4
Jill:Every school at DSB North East has an inventory of BeeBots, Kibo, sphero, dot and dash, Makey Makey, little bits, LEGO Wedo, lego mindstorms etc. in elementary schools
Sandra Chow:https://education.makewonder.com/robotics-competition
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:We deployed 1-2 but given our combined classes we have Sk-3 using
Melissa Pennarun:Kindergarten students love Dash n Dot
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:+Melissa- agree!
Kiran:It's been so good for kids to run their programs to see what works and needs to change.
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:The immediate feedback piece for students is powerful. They love to persevere to get the robot to do what they want it to do!
Sandra Chow:http://bit.ly/ScratchCert
Kiran:Are their communities/organizations through which teachers can build their coding skills?
Jerry:yes
Melissa Pennarun:rap rap rap
Matt:EV3s are popular in the Ottawa area with grades 5-8 students and VEX is starting to grow in popularity.
Melissa Pennarun:Cool to hear about coding integrated with Language curriculum!
Jerry:Grade with Sphero?
Elizabeth:I like ScratchJr and Scratch the best because of the democratic nature of them - no cost. It levels the playing field for ALL our students. Devices such as DASH and BlueBots are wonderful if schools or other purchase them for students but we must be aware of not putting that on our families to provide them for their children.
Scott McKenzie:Sphero Kindergarten through to high school
Melissa Pennarun:We've used Spheros with our K to 5 students. They also challenge me as a 37 year old.
Jerry:atta girl Stacey!!
Scott McKenzie:Spheroedu app for Chromebooks, and iPads/Android has a draw code screen that allows Kindergarten students to create their program and then run their program.
Sandra Chow:https://www.teachontario.ca/community/explore/coding-in-ontario-classrooms/projects/beyond-the-hour-of-code
Scott McKenzie:My Grade 3 students were so proud and excited to share their learning. It was a great experience all around!
Lisa Floyd:Yes Kiran.... send me a message... happy to help:)
Lisa Floyd:#sgdsbcodes
Peter:My class just had a session on MIT App Inventor. They made simple apps and put them onto Android tablets. Great session, and free online platform.
Kiran:thanks Lisa. Will do.
Lisa Floyd:Love the colearning with students.
Jonelle:Any other recomendations for ways to incorporate code in different subject areas?
@aforgrave (Andrew):Next up, a circle!
Lisa Floyd:Yes! Love it Andrew:)
Scott McKenzie:Jonelle, teach your students how to code and give them the option to use it to share their learning in any subject area and see what they come up with!
Peter:Jonelle, Scratch can be used to create video games based on Social Studies themes. Worked well in the past for me.
Donna:I am not a coder- I am a learner-- Love these words. Thank you Stacey- makes us all feel good for where we are at.
Scott McKenzie:They can code Interactive posters, create animated videos that explain science concepts, they can create characters and backdrops for Art in Scratch/Scratch Jr to create a story, the story can be a Creative Writing project.
Steve Floyd:Who votes for Stacey hosting the next webinar??? Wow! Well said!
Melissa Pennarun:So much here! Awesome webinar!
Scott McKenzie:Stacey -- You are a Coder!!
Lisa Floyd:Yes, I agree Scott
Lisa Floyd:AHHHHH my favourite subject!
@aforgrave (Andrew):Make peace with math ....
Kiran:Kids can compose music/sounds that get added to a project.
Jerry:Well said Stacey!
Lisa Floyd:@wallwins
Scott McKenzie:Coding makes my students love Math even more than they did before!
Sandra Chow:Thanks trekking through the snow to join us! We were so blessed to have you share today.
Christina:So very true Scott.
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:@WallwinS- Feel free to reach out
Warren:coding is math in a desiguise
Peter:Exactly, Warren!
Sandra Chow:Yes and Scott your wisdom and experience is inspiring.
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:We also leverage Technology Champions in our Board via the CODE funding- develop leadership and gives a voice to tech integration at staff meetings and PD days
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Communicate Communicate Communiate- newsletters, twitter, videos,tutorials
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:and of course Relationships Relationships Relationships
Donna:We had a co-op student from secondary do a placement in elementary to help us learn
Peter:To help get other teachers started, Google CS First has a great curriculum for use with Scratch. It has step by step thorough instructions and guidelines.
Jerry:good idea Donna!
Rola:The students enjoy teaming up with many classes and creating challenges on padlets to solve.
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Donna- yes- honoru student voice and develop leadership.
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:*honour
Donna:If you can find an amazing secondary teacher to partner with, you can also get a SHSM class to help in elementary classes
Scott McKenzie:Agreed! CS First is an excellent starting place for Junior students: www.csfirst.withgoogle.com/create
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Remove as many barriers as possible- difficult to do but for some it won't take much to not try- do yoru best to remove any tech issues, resources issues, time issues, etc
Peter:My Intermediate students love Scratch too. I thought it would be too "young" for them, but I was wrong.
Lisa Floyd:Stacey gets a lot of ads about shoes I would think:)
Scott McKenzie:Primary Students: Gr. 1-3 get started with these video tutorials and starter projects for Scratch: https://sites.google.com/a/googleapps.wrdsb.ca/hour-of-code/primary-scratch-lessons
Rola:Coding with the community a retirement home residents https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/189620668/
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Resources:I really enjoyed CODE in every classroom by Brookhouser and Megnin and Lifelong Kindergarten by Mitchell Resnick
Lisa Floyd:Love these resources
Donna:I like the tutorials in scratch. Helps me learn- do --repeat
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Our students who are receiving PD with Fair Chance Learning want their own studio in Scratch to share and debug codes they create- breaking down our geographical barriers in our Board
Jill:The best skill I have seen students develop while using coding is grit and perseverance
Donna:I agree Jill
Elizabeth:I agree Stacey. Each time I go back to those two books I find more and more ideas for my own mindset growth
Scott McKenzie:Lots of great ideas in the official Scratch Jr. Projects Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Official-ScratchJr-Book-Help-Learn/dp/1593276710
Peter:Coding Quest is a Scratch showcase that motivates students. https://www.thelearningpartnership.ca/what-we-do/student-programs/coding-quest
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:YES! I love the digital literacy connection
@aforgrave (Andrew):Subjects are an abstraction that adults have laid over learning.
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:JERRY:https://sites.google.com/tdsb.on.ca/dashndot/challenges
Peter:For KG-3 the LightBOT app for iPad is fun and teachers basic coding logic.
Erin O'Rourke:https://www.teachontario.ca/community/explore/coding-in-ontario-classrooms
Sandra Chow:Here is the link to the Code in Every classroom bookclub from TeachOntario https://www.teachontario.ca/community/explore/TO-OSLA-book-club/projects/code-in-every-class
Jerry:Cool! Thanks Stacey!
Erin O'Rourke:imaginethis.ca
Lisa Floyd:Thanks Erin.
Sandra Chow:http://researchideas.ca/mc/
Donna:Will there or Should there be an elementary curriculum for coding or computational thinking
Jenn Benedetti:We had highschool students in to teach and show us some basics of Scratch and then we did hour of code week activities in Dec. I was wondering what is next??? so many ideas, thanks! Can't wait to check out these site and connect with some other ediucators
Warren:What age would you start Scratch Jr vs Scratch?
Sandra Chow:https://www.teachontario.ca/community/explore/knaer/math-knowledge-network
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Connect with other leads in your board- coding roll out should not be a silo- limited learning this way- connect with math leads, early years
Jerry:so many connections across the curriculum.
Tyson:Thinking about innovative spaces..would you reccomend coding/devices stored in the classroom or move to a more "learning commons" model? Thanks!
Scott McKenzie:Warren - Scratch Jr: Gr Jk-3
Kiran:Will these links/resources be put on the teachontario site?
Scott McKenzie:Scratch: Gr. 2-9
Noel Abraham:any recommended books for computational thinking or research on it?
Warren:Thanks Scott
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:The curriculum connections- clearly articulated for educators helps support the time investment for teachers
Sandra Chow:Yes we will be posting this session and add more to the coding hub
Warren:ANybody big into Micro:bit?
Warren:anybody
Scott McKenzie:Microbit is awesome, lots of uses, low cost, works with chromebooks
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Love microbits! Also great because you can just use the online platform if your school cannot yet get teh kits
Andrew:I really enjoy it
Warren:What are the needed kits beyond the microbit?
Tracey:I won a class set of 10 and my gr 8 class likes them
Lisa Floyd:https://www.teachontario.ca/community/explore/coding-in-ontario-classrooms
Jerry:Thanks Lisa and Steve and Scott and Stacey. Great webinar! Lots to think about and lots of ideas to consider! Exciting!
Liz:Thanks Steve and Lisa et al
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Thank-you Jerry-phew!
Donna:So many links - so little time
Jill:I am looking for ways to integrate coding with procedural writing in the grade 1 classroom. If anyone has suggestions I would be very grateful. You can reach out to me on Twitter as well @jillplaunt
Christina:What a great team tonite. Thanx very much.
Warren:Great webinar! Thanks so much Lisa & Steve
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Jill- follow @MSE112- she is SK/1 teacher who rocks procedural writing.
Elizabeth:Wonderful to know about the Hub.
Jill:Thank you, Stacey!
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:Unplugged activites are key to rolling out coding and procedural writing is a great way to start
Peter:Thanks all!
Kiran:Thanks, this was a great session!
Donna:Thanks LIsa, Steve, ,Scott, ,and Stacey
Tyson:Thanks everyone!
Stacey Wallwin @WallwinS:-Jill- the human robot! Have kids write the procedure for a task and then their friend acts like a robot to test the writing
Matt:Thanks everyone
Rola:Thanks for sharing the thinking and the connection to authentic learning hrough coding. Hopefully we will have a curriculum focus on coding soon.
Steve Floyd:Hi Jill, if you're starting with a particular device (a dash robot, etc) have students learn how to turn it on, basic operations, then have them create a manual for the other grade 1 class.
@aforgrave (Andrew):Thanks Sandra, Lisa, Steven, Scott, Stacey!
Erin O'Rourke:www.tvo.org/teachontario
Erin O'Rourke:eorourke@tvo.org
Donna:Great Idea Steve-gonna steal that one!
Erin O'Rourke:communitymanager@tvo.org
Steve Floyd:Please connect with us!! What did we miss, what's next for the hub??
Noel Abraham:Do we email erin for the certificate?
Erin O'Rourke:Yes please do!
Lisa Floyd:I have learned so much from reading this chat tonight! I look forward to reading it all over thoroughly.
Lisa Floyd:Thank you all for sharing and for the questions.
Erin O'Rourke:http://bit.ly/PLS2018exit
Steve Floyd:Get in touch with Scott too! He has some great ideas and has been doing this for a while! A great resource!
Warren:Great session.
Lisa Floyd:THanks, Warren:)