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Week 5: Minecraft Selfies

Nov 2, 2019admin3 CommentsEC&I 831, Learning Project 2.0

This week in my learning project I decided to use a Raspberry Pi. A Raspberry Pi is a small computer that promotes teaching basic computer science in schools. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jA8wYqQLBU] This has been my first project with the Raspberry Pi. There are numerous tutorials online that will work through how to code using a variety

Week 4: Coding a Game in Python

Nov 2, 2019admin1 CommentEC&I 831, Learning Project 2.0

This week in my coding journey I decided to write a text-based game. I followed a YouTube tutorial that was a basic, entry-level video that focused on everything that I have been learning. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDdTgxv2Vv0] The game that I created really taught me how text-based games such as Zork, and other text games work. Check

Sharing and Open Education: The Why, The Where, The How

Oct 25, 2019admin9 CommentsEC&I 831

What is Open Education? Sharing is caring. Over the last week, we have discussed Open Education. To be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure what the concept of open education really was. However, I soon learned that open education is essentially is allowing everyone access, regardless of barriers, access to quality educational materials leading to quality

Week 3: My First In-depth Program, the Twitter-Bot

Oct 21, 2019admin2 CommentsEC&I 831, Learning Project 2.0

This week I spent the majority of my time using Sololearn and Py to further my knowledge of Python. However, I did end up finding a YouTube video that walks through how to create a Twitter-Bot. This Twitter-Bot’s goal was to look up a hashtag, like tweets in order to gain followers. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ovFudqFB0Q] Talk

Week Two in Learning the Language of Python

Oct 20, 2019admin2 CommentsEC&I 831, Learning Project 2.0

This week I have focused a lot on using the apps to support me using Python. I believe that I have learned enough of the rules/syntax of Python that I can start actually diving into coding something a little bit larger. In the following video, I take a look at the tools that I have

Engaging Students Using Pear Deck

Oct 14, 2019admin3 CommentsEC&I 831

In my teaching, I often used PowerPoint to guide my instruction. Looking back this really was not good teaching practice as it encouraged me to be at the front of the classroom lecturing. Let’s face it, the standard PowerPoint presentation is not the most engaging way for us to teach our students. Many times, presentations

Learning in Python: Week 1

Oct 8, 2019admin1 CommentEC&I 831, Learning Project 2.0

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Learning, and Unlearning

Oct 6, 2019admin7 CommentsEC&I 831

I often hear the phrase that teachers are no longer the keepers of knowledge, but the facilitators of learning. However, I believe this is not commonplace in our current education system. In our current education system, change comes slow. And often teachers have to go through an unlearning process. What’s Harder Than Learning, Unlearning highlights

Learning Project 2.0 – Coding With Python

Sep 29, 2019admin3 CommentsEC&I 831

Steve Jobs once said, “Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer because it teaches you how to think”. Students need to know how to problem-solve effectively, and in turn, students need to be computational thinkers. In some sense, as Brian Aspinall says, computational thinking means to develop and solve problems using tools

The Ups and Downs of Social Media in the Life of Me

Sep 22, 2019admin2 CommentsEC&I 831

It is baffling the way that people adapted and evolved with the use of technology and social media over the past 30 years. Prior to 1991, the extent of social media was limited to having your friend next to you play Luigi and yourself, Mario. Meanwhile, grandmas get the daily gossip through the party line.

Curtis Bourassa

It’s OK to be where you are, it is not OK to stay there.

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