ULearn 2017 - Day 3: Coding and storytelling tools

From Shakespeare to Star Wars – Coding and storytelling tools

Presenter: Brad Waid

During this presentation, Brad Waid shared many great apps for bringing learning to life for students through cool storytelling tools. He also shared some great sites for coding programmes.

Storytelling is a superpower that we all possess

Tools: books, tv, movies, commercials

Walt Disney - master storyteller

Dr Seuss, Stan Lee, George Lucas

Popular TV shows - we can relate to the characters, humour, scenery/location, drama, storyline,

Puppet Pals, Shadow Puppert Edu

Toontastic

Music is powerful to tell a story

Select a scene, characters

Story Bird

Zimmer Twins

Chatter Pix - animate and bring anything to life

Write Comics

Using tool is just a medium to show understanding. Can students apply what has been learnt/taught in another medium?

Marvel Comics

Touchcast Studio - can use with greenscreen

Morning announcements - students can do daily broadcasts

Book Creator - create ebooks

Canva - graphic design tool. Simpler version of photoshop.

Wordswag

Adobe Spark

Action Movie FX

Chromville - can colour in a character, scan and bring to life

Quiver and quiver education

Crayola Color Alive - bring characters to life

Tools can leverage power of technology to engage students

Atlas Trac Labs - programming robots

Coding:

Kodable - Junior kids level

Lightbot

Scratch

Tynker - using lines of code like Scratch

Pixel Press Floors - robust, free, students program and code with their hands first, draw own video game, symbols represent a piece of coding. Scan drawing and digitise drawing. Students can upload games for others to play.

Bloxels - 21st century programming - hands on and digital

Blocks of colour, dropped into board, scanned and then digitised. Can create characters, villains, kids create and then play.

Code.org

Cospaces - year 4 up

Hopscotch

Box island

Game froot

Piktochart similar to canva

Musical.ly - year 5 up

Aurasma

Tale blazer

Explain everything

Tellagami

Pixar on a box

Kahoot - interactive quiz tool

See Saw app
This was a really cool presentation just to see what the most popular apps and programmes were being used for educational purposes.

ULearn 2017 - Day 2: Brad Waid Keynote Speaker

Brad Waid - Keynote speaker

Engaging the “Globally” connected student of today.

Augmented Reality - captures students, engages them

What are kids learning? Where? Role as educators? What are kids sharing?

Are we preparing students for their future or our future?

You never know what will change a student’s life

Story about Justin (selective mute). Provided with opportunities to share/speak in a non threatening way - able to share/explain learning using an ipad

Impact of social media is massive. 50% of world population is under the age of 30. Power of social media

League of Legends game - massive in Asia - 23% of kids play this game

Compared to Minecraft - 2% of kids playing

Pokemon Go - First time screen and real world combined, encourages kids to go outside. Leveraged tech for really good outcomes

Youtubers: uses power of the internet to share with a wide audience

Shared lots of interesting and inspirational videos

Coke video - connecting people in India and Pakistan. Showed how technology was used to break down barriers and connect people.

Commercial of Dad learning English to read sons book

Important in how you treat people- relationships are important

One simple R.U.L.E - acronym

Overall I enjoyed this keynote with Brad Waid. He seems to be well connected with a wide online presence. I thought that it was good that he shared some of his personal experiences with students and how a piece of useful technology opened up a whole new world of potential for some students.

Professional profile (straight from ‘Best Keynote’ site)

Brad is an International speaker, influencer and educator with over 15 years of classroom and industry experience.  He is an industry leader in Educational Technology, 21st Century Learning, Culture and Innovation, Augmented Reality & Emerging Technologies.  He is a consultant to industry, education and government.  Brad is called on by industry to assist in marketing and telling the story of a product or a company, he assists school districts and educational conferences in applying technology into education, and he works with government agencies to improve education for all students.

He is one of the Co-Founders of AR Detroit, a Co-Founder of Two Guys and Some iPads blog, he is the Co-Host of the wildly popular  “Two Guys Show”, a consultant to start-ups from Silicon Valley to New York, he works with government agencies and he has been honored by the National School Board Association as one of the “20 to Watch” in Educational Technology, a program that identifies emerging education technology leaders who have the potential to impact the field for the next 20 years.  Brad’s knowledge of educational technology, his ability to assist industry and government and his passion to inspire educational change, makes him a highly sought after speaker and influencer who makes an impact where ever he goes.