{"id":4411,"date":"2019-02-01T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2019-02-01T13:18:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T21:18:02","slug":"applied-design-skills-and-technologies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2019\/02\/01\/applied-design-skills-and-technologies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Applied Design, Skills and Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applied design, skills and technologies is a part of the K-12 curriculum.&nbsp; &nbsp;ADST is more than robots or coding or building things.&nbsp; It is a mindset that encourages curiosity and exploration.&nbsp; Seen in roles from engineers to artists, they solve real-world design challenges by inventing and re-inventing.<\/p>\n<p>We&nbsp;introduced the children to a variety of materials, tools and technologies in order to encourage creative and critical thinking through design.&nbsp; They generated ideas, made a product, and solved problems in their design by incorporating new ideas.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kinetic Sand- create castles using this material that feels like real sand and holds it shape<\/li>\n<li>Keva Blocks &#8211; create a structure by stacking wood planks using no glue or connectors<\/li>\n<li>Snap Curcuits &#8211; build a variety of circuits that do something like turn on a light or run a fan<\/li>\n<li>Crossy Roads &#8211;&nbsp;develop a set of logical steps to do something<\/li>\n<li>Chatter Pix &#8211; use oral language skills to create a picture that talks<\/li>\n<li>Marble works &#8211; create a structure that uses chain reactions to move a marble through chutes<\/li>\n<li>Beading &#8211;&nbsp;create a necklace made of beads that follows a pattern (a pre-cursor to coding)<\/li>\n<li>Tinker Toys- build structures that move<\/li>\n<li>Lego &#8211; design and build unique structures<\/li>\n<li>WeDo robot &#8211; use hardware and a software to create a robot that completes a task<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[metaslider id=4424]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied design, skills and technologies is a part of the K-12 curriculum.&nbsp; &nbsp;ADST is more than robots or coding or building things.&nbsp; It is a mindset that encourages curiosity and exploration.&nbsp; Seen in roles from engineers to artists, they solve real-world design challenges by inventing<a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/2019\/02\/01\/applied-design-skills-and-technologies-2\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4487,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/4487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/gourlays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}