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Category Archives: Technology
Coming Soon to a University Library Near You!
It only took 5 years to get through the academic publishing world. The main results of my 300 dissertation condensed down to 18 pages. Should be relatively readable. Very happy to get it out there. Hopefully, it will help contribute … Continue reading
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Tips for Making Concurrent Teaching More Face to Face
With many schools moving from hybrid or remote to in-class learning, I wanted to discuss ways to restore more of a face to face feel to classrooms. In Massachusetts, families still have the option of staying remote and about 10% … Continue reading
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Pioneer Valley Regional School Innovation Center Update
The Innovation Center goals are: Teach Middle School computer science and high school engineering design More generally, teach innovation, the application of math, science, the engineering design process, and presentation and documentation skills Our focus is on hands-on, creative doing … Continue reading
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How I Used COVID Itself to Motivate My Tech Students and Why They Liked It
The Challenge I was faced, at the start of the year, with creating curriculum for a new middle school Computer Science courses centered on Computer Science Discoveries (CSD) from http://code.org/. I also had to create new robotics engineering projects for high … Continue reading
Middle and High School Students Enjoy Challenging and Relevant COVID Tech Projects
Middle and high school students at the Pioneer Valley Regional School recently completed COVID related Computer Science (CS) and engineering projects. I was faced, at the start of the year, with creating curriculum for a new middle school Computer Science courses … Continue reading
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Interviews – High School – Design Your Own COVID Social Distance Robot Project
Here’s what high school students said about their COVID social distancing robots. Analysis to come. Boy 1 I think you talked a little bit about it in the research slide but could you say how you choose a particular design … Continue reading
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Interviews – Middle School – Design Your Own COVID App Project
Here’s what middle school students said about their COVID focused apps. Analysis to come. Girl 1 – COVID Educator App How did you think of the idea for this app? Well, it was kind of first came to me because … Continue reading
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Design Your Own COVID App Student Interviews and Example Presentation
Pioneer Valley Regional School has started a new Computer Science (CS) curriculum called Computer Science Discoveries from code.org. In the first unit, students learned the basics of computers and computer programing studying the key concepts of problem scoping, input, output, processing, … Continue reading
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Pioneer computer science students design apps that could combat pandemic aspects
https://www.recorder.com/Pioneer-computer-science-students-design-apps-that-could-combat-real-world-pandemic-aspects-37000584 By ZACK DeLUCA Staff WriterPublished: 10/29/2020 4:43:18 PM NORTHFIELD — Students in Pioneer Valley Regional School’s computer science program have spent the last two months developing apps that could be applied to real-world aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Innovation … Continue reading
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