Anytime you see educators on the floor and sitting among tangles of wires, you know good things are coming for students! wcpssDLL

Student stamina during today's digital design was astounding in Ms. Guin's 3rd grade class Willow Springs Elem We integrated design thinking, graphic organizers, & prewriting to begin work on a Google Site choose your own adventure math game. To be continued! Dawn Vinson wcpssDLL

Definition of Polygon & Quadrilateral: The creation of Google Sites during Michelle Guin 's 3rd grade math class where writing & web design collide during math lessons & students don't want to stop writing about math Willow Springs Elem Dawn Vinson WCPSS Southern Area wcpssDLL

Students in 3rd grade Willow Springs Elem wrote their first math question today for their Google for Education website game. Next up is using high level math writing to justify both right and wrong answer choices. #StandardsForMathematicalPractice Dawn Vinson WCPSS Southern Area wcpssDLL

Focusing on pedagogy and consideration for rethinking assignments to welcome Chat GPT as a learning partner Kaitlin Page Dawn Vinson

JUST getting started Lincoln HeightsECMES w/ NC.DLS.EL.1 Empowered Learner: Ss leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving & demonstrating competency in their learning goals. Using Google for Education Sites to write about math THEY determined they need to practice. Back soon!

Students declared that the most fun w/ math is while creating a website choosing their own learning targets and designing their own content. Next project involves speaking about the design process w/ created robots & Makey Makey #EmpoweredLearnerNCDLSEL1 ISTE Lincoln HeightsECMES

Student's writing in 3rd grade math today Willow Springs Elem looked like Scratch Team code w/ Makey Makey & sounded like high level explanations of answers recorded into record blocks. Can't wait to see their final math poster games. Dawn Vinson WCPSS Southern Area wcpssDLL Cori Rochford

Building capacity to facilitate engaging math opportunities at both Lincoln HeightsECMES and Conn Magnet Elementary today! iRobot Education Google for Education Kaitlin Page Dawn Vinson WCPSS Southern Area Central Area wcpssDLL

Our road trip to engage continued today w/ a stop Willow Spring High School to discuss how #finch will engage Math4 learners. Next up, Lincoln HeightsECMES to introduce Makey Makey for their design process robot unit. Last stop, Conn Magnet Elementary to program #root to draw shapes for measuring perimeter.

Having fun programming 60+ CodeJoy micro:bits for the NCTIES conference next week! Come and play with us Thursday 11am room 306A wcpssDLL #ISTENC

This sure covers a lot of ground in Wake County Public School System Strategic Plan Priority 1, Academic Lever 1, Academic Lever 2, NCDLS 2.5 Designer, NCDLS 2.6 Facilitator wcpssDLL #CSEdWCPSS Thank you for all you do for education BirdBrain Technologies

This is the ecstatic face of discovering video feedback. Canvas has something for everyone. What's YOUR thing? Dawn Vinson Herbert Akins Road Middle School

After some great CSEd and 4C teaching by Kate Caflisch, 8th graders Herbert Akins Road Middle School let Scratch Team do the talking about atoms and the periodic table with a little help from Makey Makey #academiclever1 #csedwcpss Dawn Vinson WCPSS Southern Area

Sometimes you find that thing that "just works" at the exact right time and the joy just spills out! Canvas by Instructure Herbert Akins Road Middle School WCPSS Southern Area Dawn Vinson wcpssDLL

Everyone in the room Oakview Elementary learned smthing about the Prometheans today, even DLCs; turning your board into a camera, opening multiple annotation windows simultaneously, resizing on the screen, multiple student screensharing, saving to google, more. Dawn Vinson wcpssDLL

There really is a place for computer science outside in the environment. We will spend this year Lincoln HeightsECMES incororating microbits into their environmental theme. Today we learned to trust eachother during an environmental trust walk in the garden Dawn Vinson WCPSS Southern Area