NCTIES2020

Explore ways to use paper based electronics in notebooks to make them interactive, engaging, and purposeful. My students have designed notebooks to integrate paper circuits with makey makey kits, led’s, and art. These interactive notebooks showcase instructional content, graphic organizers, teach and assess vocabulary. This technology is innovative and practical as it connects STEAM with writing and enhances learning outcomes in all subjects. We are creating a new vision for 2020 learners!

“Seeing is believing” and in this student showcase, participants will be immersed in a world of student created virtual reality. From the hydrosphere, ecosystems, and genetics, 8th grade students at Elise Middle School are using CoSpaces to code their own virtual reality experiences to bring science standards to life. Students will share the CoSpaces that they have created and conference attendees will learn how they can use this technology to create their own experiences with students!

6th Grade ELA students from WYWLA will showcase their digital storytelling narrative using Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu/). Students wrote their own short story based on the Hero’s Journey archetype. They then used the code program to bring one scene to life using character sprites, relevant backdrops, movement, and sound (Standards RL.6.6 & W.6.3). Students will use laptops to display their Scratch narratives to attendees and teach attendees to write programs using the Scratch code blocks.

School: Elise Middle School

Elise Elite is a rookie FLL team consisting of 6th and 8th-grade students. We are an all-female team that strongly believes in the empowerment of women to contribute to the advancement of STEM fields. Elise Elite has a fierce determination to make a positive impact in our community through our innovation. Our strong ideals have fueled us to use what we have wisely in our pursuit of cooperation, creativity, and greater accessibility in our society.  
Our school, Elise Middle, was established in 1903. The school is very spread out and the buildings are not connected. We have a student at our school who is blind and we noticed he had a hard time getting around safely and independently.  To provide support to this student, we use the app Flipgrid to create "EarSight". With this app, the student identifies the QR code using a braille trigger on the classroom door. The student scans the QR code and a voice tells you where you are, the subject, and who the teacher is. It will help visually impaired students navigate around school.  

Students at WYWLA will address ELA & Science standards by showcasing their screencasts (screencastomatic.com, free), Flipgrid (@flipgrid.com, free), & Green Screen (doink.com, $2.99). The ELA portion compared a refugee character to a character in Inside Out and Back Again. Science was incorporated through a PSA about an environmental issue. Laptop stations will be used which will provide attendees the opportunity to create their own vision of screencasts, Flipgrids, and digital portfolios.

In this presentation, we will be utilizing different tools such as Google Tours, Animoto, and Canva within a Google Site to disseminate information and bring awareness to the plight of the impoverished and how it affects the entirety of the human race. Attendees will virtually travel to various places around the world to visually experience the environment that surrounds them.

Students integrated coding skills and the development of apps to bring awareness to their local community. Partnering with local tourism, students used Bit Robots and mobile app applications to develop a mobile app with challenges that would monitor footsteps and health indicators. Future smart cities are connected cities. This place-based learning experience allowed an opportunity to connect students with our city's revitalization efforts and share the information with citizens and tourists.

This presentation will show how programming circuit boards can bring to life the code curriculum of Computer Science class. Students will interact with conference attendees to show what they know in coding (Javascript) by programming circuit boards with LED lights, sounds, etc.
The presentation is aligned with CSTA standard 2-CS-02 and the following ISTE Standards 1) Empowered Learner, 2) Digital Citizen and 5) Computational Thinker.

NEAAAT students participated in the 2019-2020 FLL City Shapers competition, developing their Vision of the Future. Students engineered and programmed an EV3 robot, researched how sea-level rise is affecting coastal cities and designed a floating city. FLL has taught them perseverance, applied math, creative and strategic thinking, coding, self-confidence, collaboration, dealing with frustration and setbacks, having fun learning, and building resilience by accepting a challenge and just trying.

Bilingual learners need to use academic language to succeed. Technology engages learners in higher level thinking, allowing them to use language authentically. We used Spheros to envision solutions to practical problems. Our vision was to look at the future of space exploration by using robots and learning the language of science. We also explored the current problem of plastic in the oceans and how robots can clean the ocean with cause and effect language. Technology gives vision our future.

Yearbook uses technology for creation and photography, so why not also evolve marketing to incorporate tech, creativity, and collaboration? TikTok is used to create original dances, lyrics, and scripts that function as marketing videos to target the students in a catchy way that sells books. You will hear about how this popular app brings together digital filmmaking, editing, marketing, and entire class involvement that is relevant to future endeavors. Come make your own NCTies TikTok!

The standards related to the presentation are - 2-CS-02: Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data and 2-AP-12 - Design and iteratively develop programs that combine control structures. Students are creating virtual break out/escape rooms using google apps while embedding clues (pictures, hidden words, etc) for players to use to help them break out of the virtual escape room.

Make student presentations pop by using online software tools that will be more eye catching and not the same old boring presentation slides. Students learn how to research and include key information for presentations. The use of Adobe Spark can be used for presentations and include vivid graphics and videos can easily be uploaded with the click of a button. These tools can be used in any classroom that require student presentations.