“Everyone in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.” – Steve Jobs Baden Academy students are learning to code. Actually, they are not just learning to write computer code, they are coding to learn. Students in 2nd grade collaboratively built Virtual Neighborhoods […]
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Ava, Gloria, Bryant, and Emily will serve as members of NASA’s virtual crew on Orion Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). With the help of Mrs. Walaan, the research fellows team successfully completed the NASA Design Exploration Challenge. Videos from astronauts and NASA engineers guided the students in mastering difficult concepts of space […]
4th graders are busy taking a break from Virtual Worlds as they master electrical circuitry with their Asset Snap Circuit sets. Progress continues to finalize their STORM STORIES book. I was thrilled to welcome Miss Bianco’s and Miss Preffer’s second graders to the media lab last week. They did great […]
Virtual Worlds has begun to work on the individual species, creating and programming them in Alice 2. Students have already created a shared ecosystem on their virtual world with their teammates. Now, they are creating a unique species in their ecosystem, one that is part of the food web with […]
Dear Virtual World Parents, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope the holiday finds you and your children safe and warm, surrounded by a loving family. After the sledding adventures have exhausted your kids, and before you grow frustrated that they are spending too much time ‘playing’ games, challenge them to create them. […]
Students from Mrs. Keriotis’s class and I were able to talk briefly about Typhoon Haiyan. While I showed images of the satellite imagery of the Typhoon and mentioned that many had been hurt or killed, I made an effort to stay away from images of the devastation and added some […]
We are in the midst of our exploration of weather. Our virtual worlds have an atmosphere and a water cycle. This week we focus on clouds. Some ways to reinforce the lessons at home: Each student is writing a descriptive paragraph about a storm on their virtual world. We plan […]
Week 6 of Virtual Worlds was this week! We returned to planetary science for a week to talk about the moon and work to complete our twelve slide Google Docs presentation on our virtual planets. We will continue to polish these, and finish painting our 3D models as we explore […]