The class I am using for the Thinking and Learning in the Maker-Centered Classroom course is my Coding/Robotics 8 class. This is a one semester long grade eight class where students use Scratch and the Arduino IDE to program the Hummingbird and Arduino microprocessor. I am in the process of changing what I have done in the past to look at the course from a “Physical Programming”where I will teaching coding via the creation of physical models. The unit/theme I am using is working with sensors.
My school has made some changes and I now have more dedicated space for this class. An initial assignment asked for a takeaway from a reading. June I mentioned that:
What the maker classroom looks like is something we have researched for the past few months. This research and my biggest take away from the readings was to have a lot of storage and use clearly marked and visible areas. If you look in my room now there is cardboard everywhere, student projects piled in the corners, components all over tables in baskets. When we looked at our room redesign we created as many storage areas as possible including storage areas within moveable work stations.
Although I will be several months behind in the work I display and our room is not quite ready yet I am still learning a lot from this course.
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