A Collaborative Online Micro: Bit K-12 Teacher PD Workshop

Roisin Faherty, Karen Nolan, Keith Quille

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Abstract

This poster describes the use of online technology to deliver K-12 teacher professional development (PD) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland. Traditionally these sessions are delivered in person, with a focus on hand-on activities, but the sudden changes faced by the closures in Ireland required an alternative approach for delivering these sessions. The PD session presented in this poster was a more technically challenging micro:bit workshop, which was delivered online using the micro:bit classroom. This is typically used as an in-class, one to many instructor tool, and trialing this as a PD collaborative tool, was a novel approach. This poster presents the delivery and methodology of the session, the collaborative online format, and feedback from the participants.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICER 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages307
Number of pages1
ISBN (Electronic)9781450370929
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Aug 2020
Event16th Annual ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER 2020 - Virtual, Online, New Zealand
Duration: 10 Aug 202012 Aug 2020

Publication series

NameICER 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research

Conference

Conference16th Annual ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research, ICER 2020
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/08/2012/08/20

Keywords

  • computer science education
  • k-12
  • outreach, micro:bit

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