Computing in the Classroom - Coding, Gadgets, and STEM
- ESIP Education is pleased to offer a 1-day workshop focusing on computer tools that facilitate data exploration. Coding, and coding gadgets (example: Ozobot) are activities that function on levels just above programming yet employ similar critical thinking skills to enable digital data manipulation for specific results. Fifteen regional educators will receive a $200 time and travel stipend (plus complimentary registration to join the ESIP education community at this stimulating hands-on workshop. The core agenda of this Wednesday July 18th Educator workshop is as follows:
Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2018
- 11:00 - Welcome and ESIP overview: Shelley Olds
- 11:15 - Coding: Becky Reid
- 1:00 - LUNCH (at educator tables)
- 2:00 – Coding Gadgets: Kalo Haslem - each teacher will receive a ‘gadget’ (tbd) to take back to their classroom.
- 3:30 – Break
- 3:45 – Cool STEM data tools – 10-minute data resource talks
- UNAVCO Velocity Viewer: Shelley Olds
- CIMSS GOES-16/17 Virtual Science Fair: Margaret Mooney
- NOAA Climate Explorer and Data Snapshots: LuAnn Dahlman
- SEDAC Map Viewer: Robert Downs
- ESIP/UCAR Drone Resources: Shelley Olds & LuAnn Dahlman
- 4:45 – Brainstorming session. Collaborate on ideas to integrate tools into classroom teaching.
- 5:15 - Drone raffle (2 teachers will take home a recreational drone!)
- 5:20 - Evaluation and wrap-up
- 5:30 – Adjourn
- The Educator workshop is one portion of the larger ESIP 2018 Summer Meeting.
- For complimentary registration (thanks to NOAA) just identify yourself as a teacher when registering. Participating teachers are warmly invited and strongly encouraged to attend additional sessions of the ESIP summer meeting, especially
- Research as Art Reception, Tuesday evening
- Opening Plenary, Wednesday morning
- ESIP 20th Anniversary Celebration, Wednesday evening
- FUNding Friday competition, Friday morning
- To learn more about the ESIP Education Computing in the Classroom initiative, tune in to the spring 2018 ‘Out 2 Lunch’ webinar series, or watch recorded sessions on-line! http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Education/Out2Lunch