Lego Mindstorms in action!

At Enrich today for ICT talent development, we were programming the Lego mindstorms that we built last week. I was programming a Lego mindstorms with Jonathan and we programmed it to move forward for 10 seconds, then pause and move forward for another 10 seconds. Mindstorms are easy to programme, but you have to watch the tutorials first or you won't know what to do. I think that Mindstorms are the most exiting thing we've done for ICT talent development because it's not just in a computer screen, you can   use the robot in the real world!

Lego mindstorms

Today at Enrich, for ICT talent development we were making lego mindstorms. We were doing the simplest of mindstorm robots and I found it easier than I expected, but it still wasn't that easy. Building the robots was my favorite thing that we have done during ICT talent development because I like building complicated lego. I can't wait until we programme the robots because it would be cool to watch the robots move and interact with other objects.

Gifted awareness week

This week is gifted awareness week! I think that it is called this because the people that made the week want to raise awareness for the gifted. I am gifted in some areas (like maths) but in others I am average (like writing). Joseph Renzulli's model of giftedness says that to be gifted you have to be creative, have above average ability and task commitment. I agree with Joseph that you need to have task commitment, above average ability and creativity to be gifted.

Talent development

At Enrich this term, I am doing ICT Talent Development with with Alana about programming computers.  At the moment we are learning how to use Alice.  I have learned how you create a new command.  I also learned that you can do some pretty cool stuff from making penguins sing to driving a car through a maze.  Alice can be challenging or simple depending on what type of world that you want to make and the objects you put in.  You can download Alice on http://www.alice.org/ and then you click on the link that says Alice 2.2.            

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