Drone blocks

                Today I worked with drone blocks. I was able to watch the videos and explore. Some things I did with the simulator drone was, have it fly up, flip, turn, and yaw. Overall, this is something fun for the young ones to experiment with and play with. As I was playing with it, I noticed the drone landing in the water. I now know I need to change the code for it to land on land and not water. To do that I would need to alter the codes. So, make the moving forward code couple more inches. Giving it the chance to land on land. It was unique watching the drone follow your codes. 

                  One lesson that I found cool was programming with music. This one is a little more challenging as you must sync the commands to selected music. This challenge is for ones who have patience. One tip that’s given is “use variations of the hover and speed blocks to balance the movement with music.” 

                  I would like to see what my students can come up with and see what their mind has to offer.  As I was playing with it I almost had it land in the same spot it started but was off by a little. I then started tweaking the code little by little to get it what I want it to do. This would be a great way for students to be engaged with coding. I would begin by informing students on the terms we will be using. For example, yaw, before I started playing with codes, I didn’t know what it meant till I tried it for myself and saw what it did. After going over definitions I will let the kids explore and play around with it. Once the kids are familiar with it, I will then start giving them task to complete. For example, giving them all the same amount of task but in different order and see what each kid came up with.


                   Being able to incorporate the families with the students is a fun way for the family to work together. Something to help the parents could have a little cheat sheet for the parents. For them to have a better understanding of what we're doing. It better helps parents with the coding terms. Another way to help the parents is could be to let the parents know about this website, so they can get an experience of it. The website was helpful to me with the introduction videos. I would like for the parents to be in the loop on this. below is my video of me trying out codes.

                Now that I got a chance to fly with the real drone. I will say I had trouble getting the drone to connecting it to my device. This does take patience, and the battery life, It died out very quickly. When working with the families I will know to set it up prior. However, that results in the battery dying faster. In my opinion I feel having the family work with the simulators online and one drone up front. That is set up and ready to demonstrate. I enjoyed the simulator as much as the real drone if not even better. The real drone was not giving accurate commands for example, when coded to flip, it didn’t flip. Even accuracy of height. 




Comments

  1. Bruna's blogSeptember 15, 2024 at 3:50 PM

    Hey Rita! I liked how you responded to the challenges, when something didn't go right, just try it again! Good job at using the growth mindsed of the 1d standard. Thanks for giving tips in the programming with music, I also found that challenging. I also like how you would give them the same tasks with different orders, using the 5d Computational thinking competences. It is amazing how you included the families and realize that they may not know as many coding terms as the children. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Bella's BlogSeptember 17, 2024 at 2:26 PM

    Hi Rita! I love how you proposed different solutions to any challenges or problems you faced. Its great that you included a section describing the importance of including families! Great job :)

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