Wednesday and Thursday we did coding bat problems. I know students can find the solutions online and some students are clearly not doing their own work. I need to address what is academic dishonesty in CS.
On Friday we took a test. I had posted practice quizzes on line. When one student was done he said ¨that was just like the quiz online¨ - I havent been able to check their scores, but I am a bit nervous that some of the conditional logic tripped students up. They wrote a lot of code, but did not read a lot of code in class - I will have to do more of that moving forward. This is especially important for if-else statements because there are so many ways to do it - students can get into a rhythm for how THEY write their conditions, but they need to see multiple ways to get to the same outcomes.
AP CSP
Students worked on their ¨how the internet works project¨ for two days and then today we did the black and white pixelization widget activity. Second hour went so much better than first, and I think there were a few things that caused it to go better:
- I did the typical ¨discovery¨ method with the tool. I let them play around with it and then pulled out the key features of the tool together.
- I made a padlet for people to share what they made - that forced every student AFTER the first to post to be more creative.
Geometry
I keep going back and forth between guided practice and individual practice in this class. I have done a lot of individual practice (via team practice). I think trashketball will keep kids more accountable.
We are still working on vocab in geometry - that is slow going.
One Good Thing
Our first Lunch and Learn happened.
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