Week2. IoT. Administration of IoT in schools.

This week I managed to connect the next microcontroller to my phone.

This required downloading the Blynk IoT app to my phone. After that i followed the instructions to pair the esp32 and phone

Finnaly, i uploaded a program on the esp32 to transmit heartbeat sensor data to the phone.

Reflection

1. What are some opportunities in your context to work within your local community? Who you could collaborate with? How? What should happen to succeed in the collaboration

Our region, despite its small size, has many opportunities for collaboration. In Dilijan, there’s the Tumo technology cluster for teenagers aged 14-18. I think we could collaborate with them, but our workshop would need to be better equipped—as I mentioned, it would need a laser cutter, a vinyl cutter, a 3D printer, and other modern technologies.

There’s also a college and an international school in our region, but for now, our collaboration with them is limited to meetings at large events and the participation of our students in FabLab workshops organized by college students. We could collaborate on joint projects, but that’s for the future.

Another opportunity for collaboration is a community center where teenagers can go after school and volunteer.In any case, collaboration should occur based on interesting joint projects and mutual agreement.

2. What are the next steps for organizing a workshop at your school? How do you envision this workshop?

For the workshop, I’ll first send out invitations via email to our school. Then I’ll contact the aforementioned organizations (Tumo, the college, the community center) so they can notify their students. The workshop will likely be related to DF or art and creativity. Perhaps it will be related to the creation of biomaterials, as an example of an ecological solution.

3. What is the potential of physical computing and IoT for your teaching? Do you have any ideas on how you are planning to integrate those techniques in your context?

Regarding the IoT, I’m not sure I’ll use it in my teaching, primarily due to the high cost of microcontrollers and their limited availability in our region and school.

Regarding physical programming, I can definitely say I’ll use it to create projects that support the idea of ​​social learning. For example, I might try to create a drying alert system for houseplants at our school with my students.