1. Coding and robotics to support PBL
Greg Scrivin
Te Wharekura o Mauao, Tauranga

2. Whainga/Session Aims:
Discuss project-based learning
Give teachers hands-on coding experience
Show how easy it is to ‘scratch the surface’
Encourage the use of digitech across the curriculum
Demonstrate a few hardware gadgets
Record video reflections
Learn from each other

3. Project-based Learning (PBL)
The Buck Institute for Education (PBL Works) identifies the following seven project design elements:
Challenging Problem or Question
Sustained Inquiry
Authenticity
Student Voice & Choice
Reflection
Critique & Revision
Public Product

4. Other models Inquiry-based learning Design thinking
Problem-based learning
Direct Instruction
Help sheets/Worksheets/Textbooks

5. Scratch 3.0 www.scratch.mit.edu
Free – projects save to your Google drive
Huge library of existing projects to borrow scripts from/youtube
Can record your voice or any noise into it easily to create scripted animations
Works with a wide range of gadgets
Teaches object-oriented programming, which feeds directly into arduino, python etc.

6. Scratch 3.0 ‘Gradual release of Responsibility’
Start with guided instruction – help sheet or online tutorial (pong)
Guided practice
Investigate prebuilt scripts and make a mash-up game
Create longer game or animation of your own – can import images and speech/sounds
Creativity can start with being unoriginal at first – scaffold

7. Scratch tutorials

8. Scratch tutorials

9. Edison bots
pbtech.co.nz:

10. Makey Makey

11. Sphero
pbtech.co.nz:

12. DJI Tello drone
pbtech.co.nz:

13. DJI Tello drone – fly more
pbtech.co.nz:

14. Makeblock Ultimate 2.0
pbtech.co.nz:

15. Lego EV3 mindstorms
MTA website – teaching.co.nz

16. SAM Labs – wireless Bluetooth blocks
DeltaEd.co.nz:

17. My Goals
Students use Scratch and robots/lego/SAM Labs to model products
Integrate video production into lessons – students use adobe suite as part of workflow, summarise learning, publish to school stream/blog
Develop students towards more advanced programming - Arduino, python, animation
Digital Technology credits at senior level?
Continue to develop authentic PBL