Standard 4: Innovative Designer
Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
Indicators:
Tech Tools for Innovative Designers
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Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
Indicators:
- Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
- Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
- Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
- Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.
Tech Tools for Innovative Designers
- Hour of Code Resources for anytime of the year!
- Using the Echo Dot and Alexa in the Classroom - from erintegration.com
- VR & Augmented Reality in the Elementary Classroom
- Coding and Programming - Tons of resources for all ages, eg., Ozobots, Beebots, code.org & more.
- More Ozobot - practice coding with this tiny robot!
- K/1 Coding Apps
- Maker Spaces / STEM Design Challenges / PBS Zoom
- Google Cardboard / Google Expeditions - virtual reality tool
Learn Zillions
Awesome K-5 resources for MATH & ELA. Access to 1000+ high quality lessons, short, targeted videos for students, practice sheets and much more! Teach and reteach. By the way, for grades 2-5 - you can share lessons directly into your Google Classroom!
Khan Academy
AWESOME resources for K-5 teachers and students for Math, Science, Engineering and Test Prep. There is a whole section on coding and programming. Access a vast library of lessons & activities. Share lessons directly into Google Classroom.