Coding and Writing with Sphero

The 4C's (Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, and Critical Thinking) for 21st Century Learning were evident in our latest 7th grade Academic Literacy unit. Students worked collaboratively to build mazes and create shapes. They then used their creativity and critical thinking skills to learn to write code to program the sphero through the maze or around their shape. But that wasn't enough...students then had to use their communication skills to teach an audience how to program the sphero. They did this by creating a set of written instructions and/or filming an instructional video.