Most recently the girls have been experimenting with colors and textures. This time when we met we didn't focus on the programing. Rather, we focused on how to make Sphero's trail different patterns. The girls attached:
- Rubber Bands
- Scrunchies
- Tinsel
- Glitter
They attached the different textures to Sphero, rolled him in paint and let him go! They controlled him using the "drive" function of the app. They took turns and created a beautiful mural!
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| Adding Glitter! |
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| Sphero "Greg" is covered in tinsel. |
What I loved most about this interaction with the girls and Sphero was the conversations that happened between students. They were actively brainstorming, and talking through problems they encountered and things they wanted to try. It was amazing to see how much they were learning and thinking about what they were doing but that they were also laughing and having fun the whole time. They were constantly smiling and laughing- proof that learning can happen in experiences that are enriching and engaging and FUN!!
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| Working on the house program. |
We were working and I had posted some pictures to Twitter and we connected with an assistant principal who made a paint request for the girls to try. He wanted them to paint a house. The girls went to work right away. They were excited to have a purpose and a challenge. They went and started to figure out what shapes they needed to create and started testing in the hallway. They had a particularly hard time with the angles but they kept testing it out. They ended up doing 9 trials before we had to leave for the day. They didn't quite get it, and they were frustrated but they were also persistent. After they tried it with paint a few times unsuccessfully they decided they needed to do more test runs in the hallway next time before they used paint again.
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| They ended up putting blobs of paint on the paper to try to drive through vs. having Sphero covered in the paint. |
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