Sunday, November 4, 2018

Hello World! Amping Up Student Learning With The LittleBits Coding Kit!



For the last several years 5th grade teacher, Susie Wilson, and I have been working together to bring students a choice unit with LittleBits.  You can see these collaborations in some of my past blog posts.  Our LittleBits have given our students hours of fun, inventing and learning about circuits.  Recently, we bought a LittleBits Code Kit. This new kit really amped up the learning for our students.  Susie took the LittleBits home and figured it all out, thank you Susie!!, so she took the lead in our lessons.  She was able to guide our students through the process of connecting their code bit to their Chromebooks using the Littlebits coding web app. Their very first learning experience was to code the traditional first timer's coding message "Hello World!" so it would show on their LED Matrix bit. Since then, we have challenged students to create an arcade game called the Ultimate Shootout. Stay tuned for more on this as students learn to use their coding for real world products!