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* Individual work
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* Group work and meetings
** Group work and meetings
* Look for people that can help your team
* Look for people that can help your team


Revision as of 10:14, 18 September 2020

FIRST Season Guidance for COVID-19 Interruptions

This document includes information on

  • Materials Management and Handling
  • Content
  • Student Collaboration
  • Adult and Student Collaboration
  • Community Engagement

ORTOP Workshop on Coaching During the Pandemic

Goals of Coaching During the Pandemic

  • Safety
  • Enrichment
  • Fun

How Remote Events Work

  • Remote Events: Uploading
  • Remote Events: Scoring & Leaderboard
  • Remote Events: Judging
  • Remote Events: Awards

Possible FLL Challenge Season Schedule… Very Tentative!

  • Registration open throughout the fall.
  • Competitions begin in Winter 2021.
  • Season ends in the Spring of 2021.
  • World Championships in July and August 2021.
  • Please note, while the season may be extended further depending on safety regulations, events will not be moved earlier. We are also aware that many coaches are committed to more than one FIRST teams, and we will not schedule events for different levels with that in mind!

Communication

  • Set Norms and Boundaries
  • Pedagogy, Briefly - Remote Learning, and General Best Practices
  • Keep it interactive
  • Breakout rooms
  • Screen sharing
  • Shared documents
  • Chat
  • Share the responsibilities
  • Kids need to move!
  • Remember, and allow for, screen fatigue
  • Differentiation and “under-instructing”
  • Flipped instruction


Bloom’s Taxonomy

File Sharing and Control

  • General
  • Google Drive: drive.google.com
  • Drop Box: www.dropbox.com
  • Box: box.com
  • Programs
  • Software can be installed even without a kit
  • EV3 Program Projects Sharing

Co-editing with Google Drive

  • Google Docs and Google Slides are both excellent tools for collaboration
  • Explore the comments feature and the version history feature (under File); these are both important for setting boundaries and norms.
  • Drop an image into one of our collaborative files; you can have a stand-alone addition or play off of one that’s already there
  • Comment on something in the other file, or comment on someone else’s comment

Robot Design Software

Videos on Using Online Tools

Dividing the Work

  • Robot design and building
  • Robot programming
  • Innovation Project
  • Core Values

Develop team specialists

  • Sensor Mounting
  • Attachment Mounting
  • Attachment design
  • Navigation strategist
  • Sensor Programmer
  • MyBlock Developer
  • Problem researcher
  • Prototype builder
  • Recruiting advisors
  • Tester
  • Skit Director
  • Outreach manager
  • What else?

Possible Techniques

  • Rotate roles
  • Consider kit(s) and sub-kits
  • Increase emphasis on
  • programming,
  • innovation project and
  • core values and
  • Decrease emphasis on robot building
  • Share programs and MyBlocks by email or file sharing
  • Interviewing experts by video call
  • Assign work – by specialty and generally
  • Watching specific videos
  • Reading wikis
  • Preparing summaries
  • Contributing ideas
  • Develop virtual posters

Preparing for remote events

  • Practicing presentations by video call

Other ideas

  • Developing timelines that show
    • Individual work
    • Group work and meetings
  • Look for people that can help your team

Final discussion and questions

  • Concerns
  • Questions
  • Ideas
  • Next steps
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