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Module 2 Week 3 - 17 November

Assignment

Option 2: TURTLE STITCH

Design and implement an activity using a block programming language. Students will interact with the programme and try ot understand the code and work in pairs to improve on the code to create a design where the flowers generated will not overlap with each other.

Video of the interaction:

Programming platform used: Turtlestitch

Code:

Diversity Consideration: Kids with special learning needs will be given special attention and paired with more supportive partner to work together as a pair. This allows students with different learning, emotional or even physical needs to work with each other. This provides the valuable experiences where students develops empathy and understanding of each other needs and most importantly joy in the tinkering process. Both students in each pair will bring back a tote bag each sew with the design created by their codes created together.

Challenges and Opportunities The challenge is my limited coding experience. This also becomes an opportunity for my personal growth and learning together students and from students as well.

Process

- Modify the code to create flowers and use of “random” to generate flowers of different colours andposition.

  • Challenges : Flower will overlap with existing flowers when use “random” position. This issue also create a great challenge for myself and students to adapt and improve on the code so that the selected design (may it be a flower or any design of student choice) will not overlap with each other. There are multiple ways to solve this problem. A discussion of the possible method will be a meaningful discourse for the class.

Reflection

  • Key learnings
  • How it applies to your teaching / context
  • Next steps or improvements

Tools

  • Digital sewing machine
  • Turtle Stitch

Use samples and examples

Code

Code of sample shared with students

sample photo

Video