Aksjon: Redning - blokkprogrammering med WeDo 2.0

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The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. 

If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple and regular than the existing European languages. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental.

To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is.The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary.

The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators.

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream.

• His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls.

A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops

På denne Newton-dagen får elevene lære grunnleggende, strukturert blokkprogrammering. Vi jobber med en tenkt situasjon hvor det har gått et steinras. Elevene skal programmere roboter fra WeDo 2.0 til å utføre en rekke oppgaver knyttet til beredskap i forbindelse med raset.

Elevene skal arbeide i par gjennom hele dagen, og de starter med å bygge robotene sine. Senere introduseres de for viktige fagbegreper innen programmering: Vilkår, variabler og løkker. Det er i alt fire utfordringer som skal løses, og etter hver utfordring får elevene presentere og forklare programmene sine og vise frem hva robotene gjør når programmene kjøres. I hver presentasjon vektlegges bruk av relevante fagbegrep. 

Robotene gjør det lett å se elevenes progresjon og måloppnåelse underveis gjennom fysiske resultat av programmeringen.

Modulen passer for elever med liten eller ingen erfaring fra programmering. Undervisningsopplegget er tilpasset matematikk 5. trinn etter Fagfornyelsen.

DAGENS AKTIVITETER:

Utfordring 1 - Kom i gang. Bygging av robot. Programmering med bruk av vilkår og variabler.

Utfordring 2 - Multitasking. Programmering med bruk av løkker og samtidighet.

Utfordring 3 - Aksjon: Redning Elevene lager egne programmer som tar i bruk det de har lært før på dagen.

"Aksjon: Redning" skal utfordre elevene til å prøve ut, diskutere og argumentere for egne programmeringsvalg. På slutten av dagen får elevene mulighet til å utvikle og teste egne løsningsstrategier i en mer åpen oppgave. Newton-lærer hjelper elevene til å vurdere hvilke strategier/programmer som fungerer best underveis.