week 7 in retrospective

 What was the build that you are most proud of and why?

Dice machine, it helped me visualize patterns that can transmit messages. Great thing! I really enjoyed just working with patterns and how simple it is to use the digitalwrite. 

·         Go back to your first week and read each week's submission with an eye for personal growth. Where were you when you started and where did you end up?

for me the growth was as a teacher of new concepts. I was too overwhelmed with explaining myself instead of doing it and working backwards trimming the message and get motivated by deconstructing then constructing. 

·         What did you learn that you didn't know before?

How to explain this type of concepts and visualize code as a moving element. Everything is a loop if you really want to think about it that way. I was aware of them but arduino helped me see different ways how that can work. Also the float function and converting formulas to work for you was a very awesome thing to learn. 

As for makerspaces, their potential is great and the implementation is blocked more because we just aimed and focus them on departments instead of letting it roam free amongst every single subject. Now I'm a firm believer that I can bring the tools and knowledge to get something started at my campus with a plan, mission and vision that will Everlast. 

·         How did you actually come to learn this new knowledge?

Trial and error, ha! Makerspace manifesto, collaboration and constructivism. 

·         What did you learn about yourself?

There is no age for me to stop jumping out of my comfort zone. How in the world did I let time go for this long without me dipping my heads into coding and robotics. The blockage I got was from lack of exposure as a kid and culturally differences. Now as a teacher I got to bring that to my students because I see my self in them and can see the potential exponential they got hidden. 

I see their lack of respect towards the unknown technologies as an opportunity for me to word it differently, to develop a program to bring it to kids who just like me saw it as a strange and foreign language that only people who didn't look like me had.