Greenmont Elementary School library mixes technology, tradition

VIENNA — Clara Tracewell and Ainsley Hardesty were intent on making a basket Thursday. “We are trying to program Dash to go forward and shoot the basketball into the hoop,” Tracewell said. Using an iPad, the Greenmont Elementary School fourth-graders traded off programming and control of the Dash robot. The duo measured distance in centimeters, set the amount of power the robot would use to throw the ball, and looked at angles of approach. Throughout the room small groups of students were doing the same, then studiously recording their successes and failures. “We’ve gotten a few hoops,” Hardesty said.

The challenge was part of the school’s library class, which in recent years has begun to use new technologies to supplement traditional texts. […]

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