My ETP focuses on teaching the mental models behind programming in React, a JavaScript framework popularized by Facebook that is currently being used to develop web, mobile and VR apps.
The Importance of Building Interfaces is a short (approx 4 days) mini unit that emphasizes why it is valuable and necessary to establish interfaces to be used in larger programming projects.
Project Management Tool: This project management tool was inspired by different tools currently used by the Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) program, to help students working on projects set goals and maintain project requirements.
Students will learn how to research and identify reliable internet resources. To show their skills, the students will create a culminating project about a California region. They will collaborate in an assigned group to find information using focused questions.
This lesson helps students develop a growth mindset in math by exploring multiple ways to solve problems.
The CyberLearning team at SRI researches innovation in cyber learning education (http://circlcenter.org) and how to assess the learning gains students make in their computational thinking.
Following the steps of the design thinking process and acting as bioengineers, students will use everyday materials to design and develop devices and/or approaches to unclog model blood vessels.
True collaboration is difficult to achieve. We all have different ideas about achieving an objective. Often we are reticent in abandoning our ideas in favor of someone else’s. A collaborative approach can help to move a project forward.
Students will use “When Stroke Strikes” to learn about the mechanisms of stroke, and why strokes are a health threat.