 We're here from some of the poster sessions at ISD 2016 and I'm here with Brian Miller. Hi everyone, it's great to see you. Brian Miller at EdTech Nerd on Twitter. You can see my awesome sticker that Tony made for me for Tony Scope. I'm the Educator Community Manager at Wonder Workshop and I also speak internationally on Connected Toys for Top Tech EDU. So you can check us out there at toptechedu.com. But we're really excited to be here today and walk through this space with you. Yeah, me too. So we were supposed to do this on Periscope but the internet is not reliable for us. So you're watching this not live but that's okay because I think you'll still see a lot of great stuff and Brian has such good insight into this stuff. So I know in our Periscope we started talking but we might as well recap. What are we seeing here? So right here we have students that have done a project-based lesson on the steam classrooms using the Smithsonian Invention Kits, which are kits that are pre-built that you can purchase and it gives you an opportunity to work on a number of different things like robotics. More of the lighting and building and maker electronics components that they're connecting together. It's a more advanced version of Little Bits or Makey Makey because you can do some more robust pieces where it actually does require you to solder. So it's kind of the next step. This is actually perfect because it looks like Buford Middle School is using this for a middle school lesson which is definitely a little bit more advanced. Is soldering dangerous to do in a classroom? It can be, you know, under teacher direction I think you're okay but for the most part you're dealing with a heating element, you know. So being around and being present is a big piece of that just to make sure students don't get burnt. But with a little instruction, you know, you can show anyone how to easily solder. One of them want to show us what they've made. Yeah. Do you guys mind being on video? That's fine. Hi! Can you tell us about one of your creations here? Who's going to talk? So this is a speaker right here and what it is is a cone inside a box and inside here that you can't actually see there's a solenoid. Oh, okay. No. So there's a solenoid that has a magnet. So the solenoid is part of the cone. Oh yeah, so here. Okay. So here we have the cone which has a little mini solenoid as part of it and when you send power through it like that, the thing vibrates. Yeah, the solenoid vibrates and the magnet does all... No, because it's so... Okay, hold on. Kaley, you talk. Yeah, when you send electrical current through the solenoid, so this is alternating current. So it means it's switching directions while it's going through and so that means that when it creates an electromagnet in the solenoid which is the coil of wire, the magnet will be attracted but since the magnet is held in place by this the cone will move back and forth and because we have it at such a high level it will move back and forth faster and make vibrations instead of like a definite like just going like this and that makes the music and so... How much of this did you have to put together yourself? Well, we had to put like this part together but the rest... So the box, the boxes, the basket, cone and... Yeah, that's it. And spiders, we had to make those but everything else was like... Yeah, we were provided with this part and the foam part around the cone. What grade are you girls in? We were in eighth grade. Well, thanks for sharing. Yeah, they do. Add to your ribbon collection here. Eventually this will get put on YouTube so we can see them. Alright, alright. So the thing that I like about the Smithsonian kids is they were talking a little bit about what they were able to do with it but it was a kit that they purchased and it walks them through all of the steps so you're dealing with the curriculum that they already have that's created, you can purchase the tool and then from there you can build it and construct it and actually make a physically working speaker so the students are learning how the inner workings of that are actually functioning, which is really neat to have and especially to see girls doing this I think that's such a great thing as well. Yeah, and I'd like to follow them and see what they come up with next. After you make a speaker, how do you improve upon that or what's the next step, what do you add to it? Yes, the different iterations are always impressive to see because now that they understand the foundation they can build from that and make something even more impressive. Alright, let's see. Games in the classroom. We're going to take a walk over to this young student talking about Dashing Dot who is incredible. She could basically work for a Wonder Workshop. Alright, awesome. So, tell us a little bit about the Dashing Dot for people that don't know it. So, Dashing Dot robots are robots that are designed for kindergarten through fifth grade students that teach them all about computer science and coding through tangible toys such as the robot. So, this is something that could be implemented across all curricular areas. We have a number of different lessons and ideas that you can use while working with them in the classrooms. Teachers.makewonder.com is the site that you can go to get that information and we are also offering the opportunity to help fund clubs getting started. So, we provide teachers with lesson plans, examples but also provide them grant opportunities. We're giving away $10,000 to schools as well to help them fund coding in their schools and while we're here at ISTI we're giving away a Dasher Day as well. So, people that are unfortunately not here they would be missing this but we're really excited to be doing this. So, Pola. So, which one is Dash and which one is Dot? Because some people might not. And this is Dot. This is Dash and this is... Dot is the one little circle and Dash can move. Yeah, he can move because he has wheels on the bottom. So, he can... Hi. Nice and high. So, tell us what you've learned from them. I've learned to code them with Blockly. It's an app. They have five apps and Blockly is my favorite because you can add whatever you want to do and it's coding. So, people like when I do that more because they say it's the real thing coding and it's my favorite. So, you can put Start and then you can put Light Green. So, he'll turn green once you put Start. You can do... Once you move, if you clap he'll say Hi. Or if you flip him he'll do this. Or if you click button three he'll do this. It's really cool and Xylophone is also really cool because if you put this on his head he'll play and you code with your phone it's a whole Xylophone and there's dots that you click on your phone and he'll do the lights and he'll play on the Xylophone. So, what's the craziest thing you've ever programmed them to do? So, we did a maze me and my dad and it took me a really long time to get all the maze all around the house. I get a really big part of my house. So, we put tape and I had to follow the tape with the exact coding on my phone on Blockly. So, you had to get them from the start to the end and it was a lot of fun, but it took a really long time. So, Polo, can you tell us a little bit about your club that you started at your school? Yeah, so it started because my teacher, she was unpacking them and she had to start them up so I offered if I can start them up for her. And she said, yeah, so I started them and I got really interested with all this stuff. And with the Xylophone it was the first thing because it's like a lot of fun because it does noises and it turns colours. So, I started with that and then I told my parents if I can buy one and they let me for my birthday. And so, I started my own club. I asked Ms. P if I can start my own club. And so, we do a lot of stuff like we do mazes and we build Legos on top of them and it's a lot of fun. We make movies with them and we put this on top. It's a lot of fun and we dress them up. And Polo, can you show everyone your nails? Yeah. Oh, tell me more about this. It's the Eye of Dash and Dot. And it's also on your shirt? Yeah. He's nice and happy. That's awesome. Well, thanks for sharing. We have a little something for you. A little ribbon to add to your badge. You can use it with the video whenever the internet works. Thank you. It's so neat to see her excitement with that. And so, take a picture together. All right. Oh. We're taking pictures. You don't see this on the video but that's okay. You're welcome. Aw. It's neat that she's been so inspired from you to do that. That's really great. Aw. Thanks again. It's funny. People are nervous about being interviewed or they're very excited. Yeah. One thing if you're watching this on YouTube is that we can't switch the camera back and forth like I would like to with Periscope. We're just living with it. Let's see. Yeah. Fabrication. Okay. St. Margaret's Episcopal School make, create, fabricate. It rhymes. One of the neat things about makers is the ability to create some really cool fabrication. We're talking a lot about getting all genders involved in creating and sharing their talents. Part of this is what the girls are looking for. We actually met Paula who is interested in coding and that's wonderful as girls. We met some girl engineers as well. To see that represented is actually incredible here. But here what they're working on is they're working on fabrication. They're adding some LED lights to some of the designs they're making. They're allowing some of the participants to create as well. They are building basic circuits between making, creating and fabricating. So making would be it's a really good question. It's going to get me stumped here. There's a lot of people that have different ideas as to what it is. Making is the ability to build something from current elements that are available. Creating is something where you think of it from an idea that you have that hasn't been done before and fabricating is taking something that's existing and adding some modifications to it that allows you to do some really cool things. In this case, they're modifying some snowflakes that they're cutting and placing on the location in which they are on the map. So wherever they live, they're marking themselves with these cutouts that they're making and fabricating them with an LED light to make them light up and come to life. Thank you for that explanation. There's definitely overlap of those words. The maker culture is embracing all of those things. It doesn't matter what you call it. In good maker spaces, you'll see all of that stuff happening. The fact that they're using all three words means that they're doing something really cool. Do you have a maker space, a create space, or a fabricate space? Absolutely. You can have a fabrication lab where it's just fabrics or different pieces that you're adding to it. A fab lab? Exactly. Maker lab, maker space, fab labs, they all have the same idea built around them. Yeah. Let's keep going. The windows in here make some really interesting lighting effects. So not professional video right now, but that's all right. This could probably be an audio podcast almost too. And then tinkering is another word I see. How does that fit in? It's all related. Tinkering is related as well. Dealing with objects and just kind of manipulating and changing them around and building on to what they currently do. There's a lot involved in all those words and they all kind of relate one another. Let's go to the sunny corner unless you saw something. Let's head over that way. This one's about hour of code. This is steps to start a low cost coding club. Looks like a lot of hour code stuff. Which I think is great because they've created such a really nice curriculum that allows anyone to implement coding into their school for no charge. They do a lot of the instruction. They provide teacher resources and they pull from a number of different areas beyond just the hour code stuff. So they partner up with other companies, different apps that you can work with and it's become a movement that a lot of people have jumped on board with because coding is going to be something that we're going to rely on in the future. People being able to manipulate and change their economy later on in the future. Preparing our students now is such a big piece and it looks like they have a couple different things. Starting in after school club it's a great way to get coding into your school. If you don't have the time in your schedule to do that or the budget you can create this after school club where people of the similar interest can join together and do this. Family hour code I think is a fantastic thing. I hadn't heard about that. Home to school connection is so important but what's happening when they're at home and that's one of the things that we want to be able to learn a little bit about as well and teach parents about this because we want them involved and seeing what the students are able to create and do and hopefully create that interest and embrace it because it's really going to be from the support of the parents that it's going to be able to allow those students to continue on with it. I have three year old twins and they're coding with the Osmo coding app. Right, oh my gosh that is the best app I mean they're three so it's a little hard for them but they're starting to get a hang of it. Right and I saw your periscope of you doing it as well and it's actually one of our top tech toys that we talk about also but it's these connected toys that teach coding. It allows people from all different backgrounds and skill levels to begin to learn about how to integrate computer science into their lives so the earlier we can do that it's like teaching a world language. We want to be able to give them the opportunity to develop and grow and this being part of that I think is a really great idea and tool so yeah computer science is here to stay it's something that the government is continuing to embrace and grow with so we're excited to see from developer standpoint what comes out in the future. So let's talk about drones. What do you know about them? So I'm a big fan of drones. I'd like the drones that you can actually program rather than just fly. You can do some really cool maker projects where you build and create drones for free fabricated projects that you can purchase because the science behind it is very complex so they have really nice kits that you can purchase but what I'm a fan of are some of them that you can just go into the store and purchase and use and program using with an app like Tickle. So Tickle runs across multiple apps. If you're not familiar with it check out Tickle. You can download it for your iPad or Android. It connects multiple devices so it works with Sphero, it works with the Parrot drones it works with Dashing Dot. So it's all block program language program drone to fly which I think is really cool. So it brings the excitement of drones into your classroom. So I asked about drones too because there's a poster session in the corner about drones so let's go see what they have. I'm a big fan of drones. One of the first drones was the AR drone it was this huge thing and loud. It was really fun and now drones have shrunk down considerably and that drone was so expensive and then they crash and you're like oh man that's a lot of money down the tubes. Yeah and they've come down in price dramatically and the fact that you can easily purchase and implement them into schools I think is a really cool thing. The sad news is I don't think there's a drone here. I don't see any drones but I do see behind us BB-8 Spheroes. Let's go to that. No drones but we have droids. Using robots to foster creativity and empathy in classrooms and that's such a cool concept. It's trying to pair up empathy into using robotics. How do we teach empathy within schools but I'd personally like to hear what this guy has to say to learn a little bit how he's doing it but he has here a couple of things. He has the Sphero Ball it looks like he's using Sphero to do that at least that's what he brought with him so he has the regular Sphero version he has the Spark version on the table which is a see-through version so you can see what is happening inside and then they have the new Star Wars edition BB-8 version as well. So they have two different versions of that they have the regular BB-8 version but they also have the new battle edition that's going to be coming out where it looks like BB-8's been run through you know the fights and the battles. Oh I didn't know that was coming. That one's coming out yeah yeah but I'm really interested to hear about how they connected to empathy. Yeah so it looks like some worksheets and things we'll get that and we'll talk to him in a moment here Sphero on a mountain main alright this really doesn't make sense without him telling us what it is and I'll get the there's a QR code or a link for you guys watching. Alright let's see if he wouldn't well I but I'm not going to edit this is the thing because that'll take a long time so I'm treating this like it would be a periscope because if I had to go back and edit it would never get done too much work so I think this must be Richard Perry I can't see his name tag but well that's the thing so there's people waiting waiting to talk to him and I hate budding in just because I have a microphone and a phone on a stick doesn't mean I can cut in front of people but I would just like to put the microphone in front of him so we could hear him but I'm too shy I hate interrupting I don't want to like he's going with his flow you know well we have the web address bit.ly slash classroom robots so we'll come back to him maybe or we'll check that out let's go around the back here we visited the google docs add-on guy from this morning usually more spheroes let's see using tickle just what you were talking about so there's sphero and then there's ollie so ollie is also owned by sphero these are robots that kind of don't have the full 360 degree mobility like the ball does but it rolls forward backwards it spins all around in circles it's a different way of controlling and it's actually much much much faster so you can do some really neat tricks with it they come in again in a couple different versions one thing to point out if you're interested in sphero or ollie sphero is completely waterproof so you can do some really neat art projects with painting and coating so you can code and then you have it lay on a canvas and you have it paint out what you've actually done not waterproof so that's one that you want to remember and I know people have made mistakes thinking that it was my son learned to crawl because he wanted my sphero and so I put it in front of him moving a little bit and he wanted it so badly that he's going to figure out a way to get to it and then eventually the sphero was so slow compared to him he'd get it and throw it or put it in his mouth so I guess yeah I didn't know it was waterproof and they have the rubber nubs that you can use to keep it less from scratching up but dogs love it and pets so you have your cats or dogs chase it around and cats are not happy with when the sphero is out they're not happy I can see other cats might enjoy it oh yeah absolutely throw a little laser pointer in there too and they're having a ball no pun intended so then we have some tickle code here telling it to when you start playing to go left and change color and change speed and all that just by connecting those different little code blocks together what I love about tickle is they've taken a language that most educators are familiar with because of our code and some other beginning coding programs and they've unlocked a lot of really neat features within a lot of these connected toys so the developers for these connected toys may not have necessarily created an app that can teach computer science but tickle has created the ability to code using block programming language and connected through their APIs so they've unlocked a lot of really neat features that you may not even find in the developers apps who created the connected toy so that's neat so they do a really nice job with that yeah let's go around the side here maybe she's eyeing us I don't want the camera to come talk to me or maybe she does Jennifer do you mind being on video you can say no that's fine okay awesome so tell us about your poster this is a project that we did with 7th and 8th grade pre-algebra back in September our math teacher Pete Smith wanted to review the number line with the kids so we had two spheroes and two olleys we did the lesson we demonstrated it for them first had the sphero turn green went in the positive direction turn red went in the negative and then we had the kids go to one of the four whiteboard walls and write what they observed so this was all just kind of silent we didn't tell them what we were doing and then after they came back we demonstrated it again and then you just started seeing the light bulbs go off we were like what are you observing what is this doing and they're like oh it's the number line so we put them into groups of three or four each group had an iPad and they used the tickle app an iPad and a robot they used the tickle app to program the robot to move along the number line they had to come up with their equation program it and then demonstrate it for their class so that's some of what you're seeing on the video the excitement where they're they're getting the equation right or wrong and it was just a really great visual way and very hands-on way for them to get this early concept that they needed for pre-algebra but also a lot of collaboration things you don't always see in a math class or pre-algebra class but you know got them working together very early on in the year so I love the connection to the number line and we used you see the hot wheels tracks we used those spheroes a little wobbly on tile and so when we started thinking number line we didn't want it to wobble and I had a huge box of hot wheels tracks in my office I'm the library director so I had just you know all the toys so I had the hot wheels tracks and we laid those down and tried that and it worked great so we just gave the hot wheels tracks to the kids and said go you know yeah what was their biggest challenge when they were presented with this was it learning how to code or was it the actual math concepts it was part of it was coming up with their equation so some of them you know we gave them the iPad they just started programming and it was kind of like well where are you going with this and they lost track of what numbers they were using so we kind of had to refocus them we had them in four different classrooms and all we had some empty rooms at the time so we were rotating among the groups and just talking to them checking in with them some of them wanted to go really big like 26 minus 50 and we were like okay got to fit in the classroom you know so think about the size let's scale it down a little bit they tried to trick each other so some tried to flip the number line and they were like no it's really going in the positive direction not the negative so you know just refocusing them on that but they were having fun with it and and learning these concepts that was just great yeah thank you for sharing thank you and do you have some information online it looks like you have a there's a QR code that goes to blur.com there's also there there's a blog post we wrote about it and another presentation we've done these videos will be there you can download the lesson there yeah and then we've got the lesson that people can take here as well awesome thank you we have this for you oh that's right yes TonyScope.com right at that address I have it somewhere else but it'll probably be on like YouTube but it'll be linked on there so that'll be where you can find it you're welcome our first year with collaborative makerspaces and 3D printing so actually I'm kind of amazed that we've gone this far without seeing 3D printing yet yeah I honestly think that this is maybe one of the only ones that are 3D printing because it's a lot to bring you know especially when you're traveling so they they brought 3D printers and they're actually printing stuff live right now and they have a number of different things that they've also printed out so yeah this is a great way to a great tool to bring into your classrooms to talk about different things that you can create from scratch but also things that you can download to create as well and manipulate and change it definitely has a place in every maker classroom because the students can design something from scratch or manipulate and see what their outcome is so they're designing digitally and then they're printing out for the physicality which is one of the coolest parts of dealing with these and it looks like they have a ton of stuff that they've printed out on the table as well so we'll have to sneak over there to see it's our way through oh you have a 3D printed tie that you're wearing do you mind being on video sure you've got it you've got to tell me about your tie would you mind holding the microphone okay this was made on Ticker Cat and it took a lot of time I looked at a real tie and then I measured it in everything and then I made it elastic so it's stretchy so you can actually take it off and everything right here so it's like a real tie and then we printed it it takes a long long time to do there's lots of stuff like this took 2 hours this took 6 hours in a whole because each part each color took 2 hours so it takes a long time to do stuff so when you print this do you have to then go in and change the color so like you have to print all the whites at once is that how it works or you can tell it which it'll switch colors on its own no you have to switch the colors like right here we have blue and you inside the extruder you'll see it if you go walk around on the other side you'll see the extruder and you have to pull the other color and put the next color in so I printed this part one time this one a second time and this one a third time so I printed them all in 3 different times so how often have you worn this tie couple times yeah I can think of so many occasions to wear a 3D printed tie what did you learn from doing this lots of stuff you got to really make stuff pretty exact pretty exact or it's not going to be right did you have a version where it wasn't right yes the first time I made it I thought it was the right size but it was only from here to here size and it was super super small so I had to really up size it make it a scale or two bigger couple scales bigger what else do you have some other things on this table can you tell me about them yes we have a table right here a desk for like at school and it's a scale project for math so I scaled it down from the actual thing so you based it off of a real object yes another thing we have is a keychain over here right there that was one of our things for valentine's day we had to make a bunch for candy grams for school we have a catapult in the back does it really work yes it does it does yes it does but right we didn't want to bring anything so we don't lose the pieces but they're pretty small you could shoot like peas or something out of there you could shoot little stuff if it fits it alright then do you have like a google like a cardboard viewer is that what's made here so we were trying to make a google cardboard since the 3D printer is much smaller we're probably going to have to make it in half because we're needing a bigger see it doesn't totally fit but the lens are a little small but the nose pieces are about the same size should be right we haven't fully got the piece on the side to hold your phone and we made the rubber band so it stays on your head so instead of holding it like this it will stay on your head and you can just move around it's amazing something like this there's a lot to think through huh there's lots of stuff you have to think through to make things just simple as this you have to think hard just simple as a name tag you have to think what was the most difficult thing that you've done so far in your class class wise nothing so hard but stuff that I want to build was actually pretty hard like this this took me like a couple like three weeks or four weeks to make because I had to make it super exact and I had to make it pretty exact and make it took a couple weeks like I said does anybody else made a tie or this is like you're the only one who did it I'm the only one who did it for our school this is our first wearable thing for our school the next thing we're making is a bow tie instead of an actual bow tie cool well Cameron thank you for sharing we have a little ribbon so you can add to your name badge if you want we'll put this video on youtube a little bit later and it's at that address thank you that was fun I love his explanations of stuff seriously what a cool student to be excited enough to try to solve a problem on his own that probably wasn't a class activity that he had to solve he had a passion to do that and spent his own time creating and dealing with all those mistakes and failures and kind of working through it so he had an idea there were no directions I'm sure on how to do it and he had to work through and even something as simple as the 3D printer not being large enough to print his google cardboard and trying to come up with a way to make that actually work by putting two pieces together these are skills that we want our students to leave with working through challenges working through problems dealing with failure recovering from that being creative thinkers what they're doing in that class really inspired that student to do some really cool things I love talking to students when they're that passionate and he definitely was and he was not shy at all for sure well I think this is getting to be a long video for youtube so we'll probably wrap this up maybe we'll see if Periscope will work for a second part but Brian I want to thank you so much for joining me you have so much insight into this and so people contact you how do they do that they can do that by either it's the easiest way at edtechnerd or you can visit me at brianbryanlmiller.com or you can follow us at toptechedu where we talk about a lot of the stuff you saw today and connected toys as well I love chatting with you so much can we do this again maybe Wednesday I think I'm available Wednesday closing keynote time afterwards after the keynote is done let's talk about the cool things we've seen here the 3D printed tie I might have to call dibs on that one that one's a pretty cool one I now want to get a 3D printed tie I think I've seen 3D printed bow ties but not a tie like that so that was pretty impressive it is a conversation piece absolutely but I want to thank you for inviting me to be a part of this I mean to be able to share with viewers at home that are not actually here live you know some of the amazing experiences that we're getting to see in person and transferring that to them I think is just such a great opportunity to continue to learn the poster sessions are my favorite having all this stuff and like you know a couple steps later your 3D printing and then a couple more steps you're at dash and dot and making stuff fabrication it's just all right here yeah exactly so this has been a wonderful opportunity so thank you and I look forward to doing more on Wednesday my pleasure we'll see you later