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Surveying the System: Questioning Curriculum Design
When I started designing my survey for my Wicked Problem Project (WPP), I thought I had my question nailed down. I quickly realized I didn’t. Back to the drawing board. After refining, I landed on this:Why is elementary curriculum typically structured in isolated, subject-specific programs instead of integrated frameworks that support cross-curricular learning? Wicked, I…
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Making My Thinking Visible
For this week’s assignment, I created a sketchnote video to document and reflect on my Quickfire questioning process. While I have lightly edited videos before, this was my first time producing a short, highly structured video that required visual organization and concise narration. I used iMovie to edit my recording, which allowed me to trim…
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Building A Solid Foundation
When my students and I work on spiral review of concepts from previous years, they often question why we go back to “easy” math so frequently. This usually leads to a conversation about building a house. “If I wanted to build a house, where would I start?” I ask. “Would I build it on cotton…
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When Questions Matter More Than Answers
In a world where we seem to have all the answers at our fingertips, are we unintentionally failing to understand? Technology has brought about numerous opportunities and pathways to obtain answers to our questions. However, should simply getting an answer be the end goal or should there be an end goal at all? Through the…
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Speechify as a Cross-Curricular Support for Students with Dyslexia
Dyslexia impacts much more than reading time for many students. Students with dyslexia can understand grade-level ideas but struggle to access written materials because decoding is so demanding and stressful. This becomes an ill-structured classroom problem because there is no single fix. Students encounter text in every subject in various ways, and success depends on…
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Hello, Coding World
This week was honestly a mix of frustration and small wins. One of my biggest “wins” was simply figuring out where the sounds were in Scratch. That felt like a tiny thing, but it took way longer than I expected and felt like progress once I got it. I spent a lot of time trying…
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Theory of Learning
Learning as a Living Tree Learning is a living process that grows through connection and purpose. It begins in community, is sparked by curiosity, strengthened through exploration, deepened through reflection, and sustained by the people, tools, and world in which we live. Learning takes hold in what we already know and who we are, then…
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Automation — When “Almost” Isn’t Quite
Automation felt straightforward at first. Systems follow rules. They remove repetitive work. They free up time and mental energy. Simple enough…or so I thought. For my automation creation, I created an unplugged classroom activity where students act as robots. Partners give step-by-step instructions to complete a task. If the directions are unclear, the “robot” fails.…
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Jedi, Debugging, and the Reality of Automation
If there is one constant in this course, it’s this: MakeCode Arcade is my favorite part of every unit! For this creation, I built a Jedi-themed game. The concept sounds simple. A character runs across space collecting stars and dodging asteroids. Stars add points. Asteroids subtract them. A countdown runs. The Star Wars–inspired theme plays…
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Alexis Flanders 