This was the last day to work on the bead-loom software. Students were supposed to create a design and save it. Next week, will begin working on a hand-made beadloom. We gave them their assigned laptops and asked them to create their final design.
The kids were beginning to become competitive. They would constantly compare their designs and seemed more focused on the job. Every now and then, I had to remind them to make the design symmetrical and show them how to create objects but they usually based their work on that of the person sitting next to them. While I was helping a kid one time, he became lazy and started telling me what he wanted me to do. I told him he was supposed to do it by himself and I stayed behind him to make sure he did it. The kid sitting next to him started out by making a similar design and then moved on to other steps. He had to simplify his design because he couldn’t a complex design symmetrical. One other kid who took this program the previous year created multiple very complex designs and began showing off.
I noticed that many of them were still struggling to understand the concept of symmetry and had trouble using the different tools. Many tried to use triangular iteration and linear iteration but eventually resorted to lines and rectangles.
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