The next few weeks were filled with smiles, high-fives, discovery, and lots of lessons for me. One my first day I grabbed the Sphero (we have 5 at school) and iPads, popped a couple of Sphero YouTube video links into my trusty OneNote and headed to meet my class in the library. The Autism class is made up of 7 students who have varying aspects of Austism but generally communicate pretty well with me. classroom use by signing in and syncing classrooms with Google and Clever accounts. The IO (Intellectually Moderate) class includes 7 students who have little or no working memory, down syndrome, and other disabilities that effect their speech and intellectual development. I should share that the two classes I take are categoised and Moderatedly Intellectually Disabled and Autism. Inspired by an incident in which one of the autism class was mesmerised by our TechNinjas playing with Sphero one day, I decided to start with this. I’ve always been a believer that everyone can learn anything, if we just give them the chance and guidance they need to succeed.Īt our school we have access to a growing collection of STEAM resources such as: This post is the first in a series on how I have integrated STEAM into the world of these unique learners.Įarly in the term I decided that I would integrate STEAM learning into the Science, Maths, Industrial Art and Visual Art classes that I hold responsibility for. Supported Robots: Sphero BOLT, Sphero SPRK+, Sphero SPRK Edition, Sphero 2.This term I am part of the Special Education teaching team at Sydney Secondary College, Leichhardt Campus for one day a week. Google - Google users can sign in, class rosters are synced, and activities can be assigned into Google Classroom. IntegrationsĬlever - Clever users can sign in, and class rosters are synced. Evaluate student programs and stay in tune with your class without being behind a computer. Review student progress by assigning activities. Have a dance party… The only limit is your imagination. Preparing for the future has never been so fun. Anyone can save their progress, jump from device to device, and continue the discovery from anywhere. The interactive platform allows you to keep track of your class or group from one easy place. Export raw data or graphs for custom use. Sphero Edu is built for makers, learners, educators, and parents. See archive values of the location, accelerometer, gyroscope, velocity, and distance through visual graphs. Sphero robots are fun, durable and programmable robots This wiki is a guide to learn how to program Sphero robots with JavaScript, the most common web programming language in the world. Google is also involved in funding (or helping to fund) some of the EU. When a child requests a Sphero Edu account, we will collect their age, first name, username/password, and a parent’s email address.
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