Week 4 using Video

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• The subject is Technology (Coding), the students ages range from 3rd thru 5th grade basically 8 thru 11 years old and the video has a standard Youtube license. With this video I would show to my students after they completed the first two course levels. Once they understand the block based programming and also sequencing I would then enlighten them with this video. I think its great for them to see other young people like themselves perform the process because they can really relate to what is happening and see how understandable all of this really is. My students are getting a good dose of Computer Science by this time and if they can understand this video about debugging it will go along way in them continuing there CS experience in middle and hopefully high school. 
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• The content in the video is accurate for my area of study because it is directly from the Code.org website. It speaks directly about how to do the appropriate work that you want to accomplish on the Code.org website is very simple form but has a nice intro with the gymnast to entice the students.  This podcast enhances the learning of this area because the young girl is someone that my students could relate to. There are similar podcasts to this featuring NBA players, the president and famous celebrities that students can grasp onto and again relate to. Chris Bosh is a famous NBA player who many of my students know, look up to and if they see him coding it maybe important for them to do the same. The podcast also meets the standards for my school in that it is intended for school age students, especially those from 1st thru 8th grade. This coding is the basics of where you begin and this video does a great job in explaining and showing how beginning coding works. It is also easy to follow, goes step by step and has great narration from the young girl. It goes right with the Temporal Contiguity and Spatial Contiguity principles. The digital format is fine. My students can see .avi, .mpeg and Youtube videos without any issues. Listening and watching are the best way for my students to learn and this podcast does a very good job in that area. It reels the student in with the balance beam act and then shows them first hand on a pc how to perform the functions. 
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My design principle is the Temporal Contiguity, I strongly believe people have more success learning when narration and animation are presented at the same time, not successively because then they have to piece everything together. In this instance everything goes together and the student can watch it over and over until they fully understand it. 

My lesson plan this week is Coding in sequence and debugging (Video 1 and 2 ignore middle video I can't get rid of it). Students will perform block based programming and finish courses 2 (sequencing) and 3(debugging) for the lesson.

I want my students to learn the block based programming step by step and how to correct mistakes. The students will perform 10 lessons before class is over, 5 in sequencing and 5 in debugging. 

I will add creativity by doing the Coding on the Smartboard and have a few students come up to the board and perform the same actions. 

• Application:
  • Again I really love the Temporal Contiguity principle and the Spatial Contiguity principle. They both focus on graphics, although Spatial is step by step and Temporal is simultaneous with narration, I enjoy these principles because students can take their time and make sure they understand the lesson before continuing on. They can rewind to see step by step what is going on and they can watch it with the narration and graphics all together. I always try to use these two principles because I have these types of learners.  
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• Reflection:
  • I really never thought of adding a podcast to my class but to be honest I believe It would be very beneficial for my students to see me or a mentor of there's who they admire doing the lesson plan. I will really use this type of learning on the basketball court when I am coaching because seeing the play in action before you perform it gives you a great visual. I could see creating a podcast in class with my students on how to code which i think would give them a better understanding and be more confident in coding. 
  • I really didn't even know you could create videos for free and post them. I know I am a technology teacher and I should know this, but I work with elementary students so we basically keep it simple. I am really going to use this new technology and have my students start to create there own learning videos for other classes. 
  • Although I was under the weather most of this week and just kind of fought through this project, I don't know if this was my best but I did what I had to do. I do intend on using this technology and I learned that you can make so really great videos, nice and simple videos for your students to follow instead of just reading the directions to them and hoping they understand. 
  • Lastly, as you can see I created two videos, Part 1 is Sequencing and Part 2 is Debugging