Day Four

Okay... So I think I was quite dazed and confused regarding this overarching problem to solve using robotics- especially in terms of the individual lesson plans.

I was under the assumption that we were to make like five or more different lessons plans all catering to this specific problem of focus.  Hanna and I have been focusing on the improvement of fine motor skills in students who have developmental delays, developmental coordination disorder (DCD) or Dyspraxia, using only WeDo 2.0 Lego Robotics.  We have been in the process of writing teaching plans using individual projects within the WeDo 2.0 kit, and matching them to specific developmental milestones as well as common core standards.  However, in class today we learned that we may have gotten off course.

Basically what we are inferring from class today is that we are to write different teaching plans for each of the robots/technologies learnt in class thus far.  Fist we are to address the overarching question catered to a common core standard, and explain how each technology can be used as a teaching tool and assessment of desired learning outcome.  And so, for each of these class activities, Hanna and I have decided to part ways on how we are to plan and implement our own teaching plans.

However, we have continued to work on the fine motor development problem, and feel it is good to chart our progress none-the-less.  As mentioned above, we are going to use the Lego use in an occupational therapy setting.  Although, we know little about specific occupational therapy practices, we believe this can help.  Fine motor skills include the use of small muscles in the fingers, hands, wrists, and forearms.  The ability to use such properly are crucial to self-regulation and individualism.

And so, even through our initial confusion regarding the overarching problem and teaching plan, we plan to create four different teaching plans which will be four different WeDo 2.0 projects connected to either a common core standard or a developmental milestone according to national dev. milestone standards.