Zoe's Blog

I’ve mostly just been working on the lesson plan, as I’m still trying to decide on a composition for my project. I think that I might end up actually making almost a scene like sculpture, because in order to make… Continue Reading →

My ideas for the Final Project are themed around growth and adaptability. I’m exploring how to visually convey the idea that things suck presently, but there’s hope that they’ll get better. I feel negatively about what COVID has collectively turned… Continue Reading →

This is a storyline game involving choice between two alternate utopias: one being more natural and realistic and one being more fantastical and otherworldly. Both are a more vivid alternatives from the present-day dystopia that is introduced in the beginning… Continue Reading →

I chose this chapter for more ideas to incorporate into my final project, especially anything LED or paper circuit related. This related to my prior experience and knowledge of art and art education in that a lot of these projects… Continue Reading →

I picked this chapter because I though it would be useful in gathering some ideas for the final project, as well as for future lesson plans in teaching. This chapter related to my prior knowledge and experience of art and… Continue Reading →

See Inside: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/444393847 Our design thinking process first began with planning a feasible way to work together/ combine our work, since we were a three person group. I suggested we use the backpack as a way to export our code… Continue Reading →

How Do We Know? Assessment + Documentation I chose this chapter because I was curious as to what some ways of assessing students to determine if they’ve learned might be. I wanted ideas of what to look for as confirmation… Continue Reading →

Mitch Resnick’s TED Talk relates to the themes of our course in terms of Choice Based and Student Centered Learning, Discovery and Learning, and Design Thinking. In discussing children’s interactions with code and Scratch through the MIT website he helped… Continue Reading →

Directions: same as before, use arrow keys to move the fox and “tag” the owl 8 times to win. I kept the basis of my first scratch prototype. Since we needed two costumes for each sprite, it came in handy… Continue Reading →

For this game: controls are the left, right, up, down arrows; collect 5 tacos to win This took a lot of iteration, mostly just by playing around with the code blocks and see what flowed better. I decided to do… Continue Reading →