| Course Number: | EDX 5710 S32 |
| Instructor: | Lee Arrington, M.Ed. |
| Location: | Online |
| Dates and Times: | Oct 03, 2024 - Dec 12, 2024 Times: Session 1: 10/3/24 (Week 1) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST Session 2: 10/17/24 (Week 3) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST Session 3: 10/31/24 (Week 5) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST Session 4: 11/14/24 (Week 7) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST Session 5: 12/5/24 (Week 9) – Online Zoom 4:00-5:30pm EST Final Project Due by Thursday, 12/19/24 |
| Credits: | 3 Graduate Credits |
| Tuition: | $1,680 includes Lego Prime Spike Kit. Registration for this course closes on September 19 to ensure on-time technology delivery. |
Designed to accommodate educators, this 10-week course meets biweekly for a total of 5 Zoom meetings to help teachers gain experience using Lego Robotics. This course will include learning to code in Block while helping educators create actionable lesson plans for their students. A Free Lego Spike Prime Robotics Kit is included in the course and will be mailed to teachers before their first class. Educators will be supported in this emergent field of engineering education with readings and videos that will provide background and context to engineering education using online tutorials, supplemental resources, and explicit connections to the NGSS Standards as well as the Science and Engineering Practices. This course will help teachers connect and engage students with hands on learning and provide them with equitable access to technology that they may not have outside of school.
Audience: All Educators
Course Goals:
Overarching course goals include an introduction to engineering education with a focus on Lego robotics to help educators feel confident using the Lego Spike Prime kit with their students. This is a Lab based, hands-on course that provides educators with the opportunity to tinker, program, and create actionable lesson plans.
Course Objectives:
(1) training teachers to use the Spike Prime kit evidenced by photos or videos of work simulating the student experience.
(2) to provide teachers with actionable lesson plans that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
(3) to support teachers’ learning of Block programming so they are comfortable using Lego robotics in their classrooms.
Required Readings/Texts: Required Readings will be provided.
Is it Engineering or Not?
Whitworth, Brooke & Wheeler, Lindsay. (2017). Is It Engineering or Not?. The Science Teacher. 084. 25. 10.2505/4/tst17_084_05_25.
Tensions in the Productivity in Design Task Tinkering – Fundamental
Quan, Gina & Gupta, Ayush. (2015). Tensions in the Productivity of Design Task Tinkering - Fundamental. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings. 122.
Framework for P-12 Engineering Learning
Committee on a Framework for P-12. (2020). Framework for P-12 Engineering Learning. Washington, DC: American Society for Engineering Education.