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Alice: A Motivational Tool for Student Empowerment

Dive into the impact of using Alice software to engage students in various subjects, including English, Science, Math, and more. Learn how Alice can help special needs students communicate, showcase their worlds, and build confidence through peer evaluation. Discover how media coverage and peer teaching can spread enthusiasm for programming and empower students of all ages.

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Alice: A Motivational Tool for Student Empowerment

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  1. CAUTION: Alice can be Motivating! By: Julie Briney Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School Gibson City, Illinois

  2. ICE (Illinois Computer Education Conference) • Attempted to use Alice Spring 2008

  3. Alice Motivated “ME” enough to………….. • SEARCH • SEARCH • SEARCH

  4. SPIRIT at Purdue University

  5. Subject Areas English, Spanish, French, Science, Biology, Physics, Math, History, Art, Industrial Arts Home Ec, Agriculture, There are soooooooo many areas I’m exhausted just naming them!

  6. Special Needs Students Shine when they use Alice to: *Communicate *Show others their successful Worlds * Take pride in the World they developed *Teachers can use Alice to excite students for other subjects

  7. Media &Spread the Word School/Local Newspaper School/Local TV Board of Education

  8. Elementary Alphabet/Numbers Word Wall Words Motivate Subject Areas

  9. Business Classes Political Topics Welcome 8th Graders Beginning Programming

  10. Student Empowerment! Students: Critique/Learn through Peer Evaluation Students Gain Confidence Showing Alice to Class

  11. My “ahh-haa” Moment……..

  12. 5th Grade Students Programming Class *Planned & Implemented a beginning lesson with Alice *Each high school student showed the younger students a technique *After the 1st class---HS Students became more confident Empowered-Confident-Team Players-Motivated!

  13. Xpadder 5.3 XBOX controller Uses other controllers too!

  14. Alice can be MOTIVATING!

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