Three Reflections on a Enjoyable Workshop Throughout ISTE Reside

As I’ve talked about a few occasions within the final week, final week I went to a micro:bit workshop hosted by Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez. It was a whole lot of enjoyable! When you get an opportunity to go to one among their workshops, go! I have been fascinated about that workshop for the final 9 days. There are three components of it that I can determine that made it an ideal workshop. 

1. Gary did not communicate to us for very lengthy. He spoke simply sufficient at the beginning to present an introduction to the massive image and sufficient instruction to get us happening some problem actions. In different phrases, he modeled precisely what he and Sylvia write about in Invent to Be taught. We have been all engaged on problem actions inside about ten minutes of the beginning of the workshop.

2. The listing of problem actions was printed and distributed to each round desk within the room. That made it straightforward to speak to the opposite folks on the desk and say which exercise you have been making an attempt to do. That is significantly better than having to lookup at an enormous display to get the reply to “what are we alleged to be doing?” 

3. It is extra enjoyable to be taught by doing a problem exercise with one other particular person or two. The oldsters at my desk have been enthusiastic and able to dive in. We high-fived after we accomplished a problem!

Bonus Merchandise!

There was recent fruit and orange juice obtainable together with the usual breakfast espresso pastries you may anticipate at a convention. Given the choice, I am going to take the recent fruit 8.5 occasions out of 10. 

Notes from the workshop:

Nearly all of my notes from the workshop are obtainable right here. An introduction to micro:bit and MakeCode is obtainable right here.