Plan & Log - Session 2, w48, LP2346

There is a blog post about this session: 23w48 A Session with Handcraft and Programming for Wire Game, some pictures and short news shared.

And a follow up post 23w50 An Example of Wire Game with Creative Game Modes showcase the an innovative game mode.

• Recap: Variable basic, integer type variable

• Project: PJ007: Wire game with Micro:bit 

• Fika and social break

• The wire game presentation and playing competition

• Interesting making with handwork for the wire-path, and spent just a little more than 30 minutes for this part, less time than planned

• Working results by everyone at the end of the session

• Better response this time using a "random picking" tool to question the students for knowledge checking

• After reminding and encouraging several times, the students got more attention on the goals of this project, and seemed to understand how it worked, even still seemed a gap to what we expected them to understand in better details

• We found a good opportunity to demo and share our wire-game in week 50!

• Late starting by 11 minutes

• The students still lack enough reading the project instructions, keep rolling up and down and then jumped to program, but then soon got suck about what to do next... This kind of programming attitude affects the final efficiency, and made the time spent too long here.

• Not enough time to play each other's products, the planned game playing didn't happen.

• Not enough time for student's presentation of his/her product. This seemed more important now, because they need to use "telling" more to help enhance the knowledge understanding.

• Some laptop issues:

  • 1 student had problem with WiFi connection, restarting laptop resolved it

  • 1 student had mouse-pad responding problem with his macBook, not fixed even till the end of session

• The students seemed to still need more time to recall the key knowledge points of variables, digital input, they seemed to understand them as an impression, but hard to tell them out. 

  • So we need to keep slow the pace, and need to think about some playable interesting projects to enhance those basic concepts. We can use the last session next week to recap and check more about these basic knowledge, repeat more and encourage them to "teach and tell" or "present", instead of just listening to the tutor

• 7 Kr: Tutor parking

• 192.21 Kr: Snacks for fika, the tutor bought from LIDL (orange, pomelo, donut, kanelbulle, juice), a little too much, we can prepare fewer next time