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Goal

My goal with this project is to ignite my students’ passion for digital creativity and innovation by using this set of iPads with a variety of tech equipment that I already have in my classroom, but that need iPads. These materials include: Merge Cubes for Augmented Reality (AR) Holograms, Bloxels Build Your Own Learning Video Game kits, Crayola Easy Animation Studios, Kano Harry Potter Coding Wands, and Robots: Dash and OzoBots. With this set of iPads for my Tech Class students, my students can learn to create with technology, instead of simply consuming it.  

What will be done with my students

With these iPads, my students can use my Merge Cubes to learn from Augmented Reality (AR) Hologram experiences apps, like "Galactic Explorer", which allows students to hold, manipulate, and learn about the Galaxy for Science Class in 3 Dimensional Holograms. Once students understand how to learn using AR, I can teach them to create their own Hologram projects which can be viewed by others in Augmented Reality! Using the iPad app for TinkerCAD (Computer-aided Design), I can teach my students to build a 3-dimensional project, export it to iPad app “Object Viewer” for Merge Cube, and share their learning in AR. For example, students can create an AR Hologram of a house with an innovative Hurricane Resistant feature against high winds or flooding. I tried this last year, but I didn’t have enough iPads for my students to create, view others’ and respond. (Please see included picture)



With iPads, my students can use my Bloxels Class Kits to build their own learning video games, using the small color-coded blocks on a 13 x 13 grid board. Through the iPad camera, the Bloxels Edu app captures the physical blocks and converts them to digital content. Each block color is coded to represent a part of the game: green for terrain (ground), red for lava, blue for water, etc. Students could work together to plan a video game demonstrating their learning. Using Bloxels and the iPads, students could build the content including: background, foreground (on which the character runs), character, danger/foe, story blocks (where learning is shared), and art. The resulting game is similar to a run and jump Mario game. My students can build and code a learning video game based on their tech class research, which I integrate from their Science or Social Studies curriculum: 3rd graders can create games based on their Habitat research, 4th graders can create games based on Florida Research they do in my class, and 5th graders can create USA Games based on their research of Famous Americans, USA Habitats, and Country Landmarks. (Please see included picture)



With iPads, my students can make an animated movie of a character they've drawn on paper with my Crayola's Easy Animation Studio. Ourschoolwide theme this year is Leader In Me: Being a Super Hero. With these iPads, my students could draw themselves as a Super Hero character on paper, and use the iPad camera to scan the picture into the Crayola's Easy Animation Studio app, which converts it to digital. The Crayola's Easy Animation Studio comes with a mannequin that has codes on it that match to the picture scan the kids made. When the kids move an arm of the mannequin, the app digitally moves the on-screen mannequin’s arm on the iPad. Students could pose their Super Hero selves, take up to 10 Hero pose images in the app, and then record themselves telling about their Leader in Me Super Hero powers. The students use the iPad app to combine the animation, a background, and their recorded audio into a movie. What a high-tech engaging way to complete that age-old “All About Me” project! (Please see included picture)



With iPads my students can become Coding Wizards by using my Kano Harry Potter Coding Wands! Students could use the Kano Coding app on the iPads to complete 80 coding challenges, like floating feathers, making sparks in the sky, and even some of the cool spells from the Harry Potter books! They can become true tech wizards! (Please see included picture)



With iPads, my students can build programs to code my 2 Dash Robots and my set of OzoBot Robots, both of which come with free apps for the robots. The apps contain challenges that walk students through tutorials learning the blocks of code, and then allow students to apply creative, innovative ideas to customize their own programs. (Please see included picture)



Since much of the technology for which I would like iPads is new, I have included hyperlinks to short video clips to help explain my peripheral technology pieces for which I’d like the iPads:

1.Merge Cube Galactic Explorer: https://miniverse.io/experience?e=galactic-explorer-for-merge-cube

2.Crayola Easy Animator: https://youtu.be/WYdAZAliK7w

3.Kano Harry Potter Coding Wands: https://youtu.be/lRWub7BY-I0

4.Dash Robots: https://youtu.be/mKCIDrxtJNE

5.OzoBot Robots: https://youtu.be/UlZHh_1EqfU

6.Bloxels: https://youtu.be/iOI-_3h05WM



I purchased the Merge Cubes and Crayola Easy Animators myself. I received funding from Champions for Learning - Suncoast last year for my Kano Harry Potter Coding Wands. My principal purchased the Bloxels Kits and OzoBots for me a few years ago. The District purchased the 2 Dash Robots for each tech teacher. A class set of 5 iPads would allow me to use these items more with my classes. Currently, I have one iPad that I received last year through DonorsChoose.Org, one iPad that I received as part of the Sapaki Family STEAM Grant, and one that I purchased through my Tech Class budget. To use more of the technology I’ve explained with my whole classes, I borrow other teachers’ iPads. This makes planning these kinds of lessons across a whole grade level for multiple weeks, as I only see each class of each grade level once a week, very difficult. Most of my classes have between 24-30 students in them, so adding 5 more iPads would be so helpful for me to use with my students.  

Benefits to my students

With a set of my own iPads, my students benefit by:

1. Learning from and create Augmented Reality Holograms related to their classroom content areas (Science, Math, Reading, etc.).

2. Learning to Code, or Program, a variety of robots, apps, and educational game-building experiences.

3. Being involved in cooperative group work, to learn and practice social skills while sharing devices and completing a project based on learning.

4. Learning independence as students learn to work through project steps at their own pace.

5. Experiencing the writing process digitally through animation, movie-making, video game creating, coding robots, and Augmented Reality Hologram project-making activities.

6. Learning persistence and grit through these engaging digital activities – rarely do things work out perfectly the first attempt with such Technology Projects, it’s important for my students to learn to brainstorm ideas to fix issues and to continue trying to pursue a goal.

7. Learning to be digitally creative and innovative.  

Budget Narrative

The 5 set of iPads are mobile devices that I could have permanently housed in my Tech Lab classroom, ready and available for my students and I to use in our lessons and projects. The 5 SupCases are required by CCPS for iPads, and are heavy duty cases with a screen cover and built-in stand. The 5 AirWatch licenses are required by CCPS for iPads added to the CCPS networks for Tech Management. The PowerSquid Surge Protector is required by CCPS for each set of 5 iPads purchased. The LogiTech Crayon for iPad Gen 6 is an accessory that can provide my students with manual dexterity issues more success with using an iPad. 

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