In September, a programming class using PICO Cricket will be held in a special needs classroom in Hachioji City. First, we held a trial session for teachers. During the 90-minute hands-on session, we showed six teachers how to use PICO Cricket and how to program, after having them look at actual works created by their …
Programming education has become compulsory in elementary schools and is also gaining worldwide interest in early childhood education. Programming may sound very difficult, but don’t worry. You can have a lot of fun with it. Not just fun, but serious and enjoyable. I would like to introduce a programming workshop we recently held at a …
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On July 27, for the first time, we held a remote workshop using Chobittobox at an after-school children’s club. This time, since the target audience was mostly younger children, we made a toy that works without using a computer, using a programmable battery. At first I was a bit frustrated because the iPad and mobile …
A remote workshop was held at a school children’s club. This time we used the 10-button version of the programmable battery to create our work. This programmable battery uses 10 buttons to turn the motor on and off so that you can be more aware of programming the movement of the motor. I first introduce …
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It has been a year since I started living in a wheelchair. I am still a beginner🔰 at driving, but I am getting used to living with a wheelchair. When I go outside after being discharged from the hospital, I feel that the view from my wheelchair is a little different from what I can …
Scratch workshop was held in the Metaverse “MetaSupport Campus” operated by the Ehime Prefectural Board of Education. Except for the initial Zoom meeting with the teacher in charge, all meetings were held in the Metaverse. It reminded me of the meetings I had held in the past at schools and science museums, where I had …
We are planning a workshop at an after-school day care service in Kanazawa. A graduate of my first seminar after arriving at Showa Women’s University is working there, and we are planning to hold a remote workshop in late December. As a result, we decided to use the scribbling machines of the Exploratorium Tinkering Studio …
On September 25 and 26, remote workshops were held at a special needs classroom in Hachioji City. This time, we used Programmable Battery for the lower grades and PICO Cricket for the upper grades to make toys that work with computers and programs. 37 children participated in the workshop, which was divided into 5 sessions …
Remote workshops in special needs classrooms Sep 25 and 26th Read More »
On November 6-7, we held our second remote class (workshop) on creating works that run with computers and programs at a special needs classroom in Hachioji City. This time, too, we divided the class into two groups, one for lower grades and the other for upper grades, for a total of five 2-hour sessions. As …
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The second workshop at “Metasuppo Campus” established by Ehime Prefectural Board of Education was held on November 24. The theme was “Let’s draw a picture that AI can recognize faces! Using Scratch Lab’s Face Sensing block, participants tried programming and drawing a picture that AI can recognize as a face. Although the activity itself was …
