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Kelly Powers

@kelpowers5

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Director of Computational Thinking Initiatives; Cornell Tech; Leading whole school change through CT/CS integration during the school day; #CSTA

New York, NY
Joined April 2012
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Kelly Powers
5 months
If you haven't explored teaching Python with @imagilabs, perhaps this one PD participant's final project will inspire you! Julie is an elementary, stem, music, & now Computer Science teacher who took the "Creative Teaching in Python using imagi" PD sponsored by Infosys! *soundon
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Mr Lovell CompSci Teaching
8 months
Lunar Attack @microbit_edu coding booklet is now available for £4/$5/€5. Retweet & Follow to win one of 5 free copies 🕹️🎮👾 Buy it here 👉 https://t.co/SOQSTcjMU5
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Kelly Powers
8 months
Texas Teachers, we have an outstanding PD ready for you this summer offered through WeTeach_CS. Spend a week remotely w/ the @imagilabs team to learn how to bring an engaging curriculum to your students using Python, Art ->TEKS, ISTE, CSTA standards based lessons! @CstaCentralTX
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Kelly Powers
8 months
Using MIT's RAICA Picture This curriculum & loving how engaged my Gr7 studs are with it! One student wanted to clarify what bias in datasets meant. Another analyzed features missing in a cat that made Teachable Machine think it was a dog! Great insights,and convo! @csteachersorg
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Kelly Powers
9 months
Teaching the updated imagi course 1 to my grade 6 students and using the imagi-charms right at the start! Thank you, @imagilabs . Loving the new lessons, students really engaged in conversations about tech and coding!
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Kelly Powers
9 months
Just in! "Today, we want to let you know that CS First will no longer be available after June 30, 2025. Over the next 3 years, Google is pleased to support the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the development of Experience CS"-- I just subscribed! @csteachersorg
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Kelly Powers
10 months
Students are trying to analyze the datalogger- Makecode Step Counter Project. We thought x was side to side, the y, "jumping up and down" and perhaps the z moving forward. How do we validate our assumptions. Ran experiments but totally confused! HELP :)
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Capture and study motion data
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Another core value, "Go Forth and Spread Beauty and Light"
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Celebrating my students' projects on our school's core values. Students were tasked to design an image in Python using @imagilabs that they felt represented a school core value meaningful to them. Here is 1 team's representation of "United We Help One Another" @csteachersorg
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Curious & interested to know what does a Computer Science Middle School classroom look like? Do students bring their own device or do we still have desktops in the technology / CS classroom? What devices are they using? Are they working at tables or desks? @csteachersorg
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Love using CS Discoveries from @codeorg to build grade 6 Ss Computational Thinking skills! I really check their work and they build great habits. This student exceeded my expectations in Lesson 7 using shapes to construct her robot face. Her code is impressive! @csteachersorg
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Grade 5 Ss asked me this week how come we don't have Computer Science more often? We love this class :) Schools that do offer CS are lucky to have the opportunity to give all Ss access to a joyous CS curriculum. In middle schools, CS classes meet at random intervals, if at all!
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Teaching Python w/ @imagilabs and doing a code-along, lesson on calling functions. This pedagogy, code-along, gathering input from the class, quickly reveals student misconceptions. Great opportunity to strengthen, fix & develop concepts w/students. Now they are off & running!
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Made our final submissions to the #CodeWithAIChallenge. Our students are amazing showing their command of functions, animations, & loops through art! We welcomed the new debugging buddy. Simone Biles & a popular basketball athlete inspired two of our students! #HackleySchool
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Discussing Chromebook management software to take control of Ss Chromebooks,push out teacher's slides to student devices, & send an alert that freezes their screen with a message to turn to face the teacher. Are schools,Teachers using an app to do this & what might you recommend?
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Sharing this with my colleagues in CSTA. Many share strategies to engage learners in collaborative learning and classroom discourse. @csteachersorg @csteachersgb
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Digital Promise
1 year
In our new blog post, expert teachers, coaches, and principals from across the country weigh in on how they implement successful collaborative learning in the classroom https://t.co/eswadg9Khj @S_W_Hampton @julietp37 @barthcreek @kipglazer @MsDiMaria @kelpowers5
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Kelly Powers
1 year
So how might you bring engaging coding "missions" using Python code and a CodeX CPU into your classroom? Check out @firialabs for Grades 4-12 ! Thanks to InfoSys for funding this terrific experience. @InfyFoundation @csteachersorg
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Taking PD with @FiriaLabs and I just want to say WOW! They are an incredible team with outstanding resources for delivering Python curriculum with the CodeX board. So worth my time ( Day 2) Thank you @InfyFoundation
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Maryland Educators learning & sharing this week at CS EdConf at Hood College. Many people at MCCE, Coding in the schools,& DOE to thank! But, my unsung hero is Elissa Hozore who manages to orchestrate programs to develop teacher ambassadors & watch them blossom. @CstaMaryland
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Kelly Powers
1 year
Britt Simmons, Master K-5 MediaSpecialist & I were able to lead a workshop for Maryland prek-5 teachers developing their confidence & content knowledge using DevTech teams resources. Thank you @DevTechResearch for all you do. Shout out to Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers' impactful work!
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