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Collision Detection

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Reflect on using the collision block and the count-within block in the Colliding Turtles activity.

Algorithms

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Reflect on the Trailblazers activity.  Were you able to accurately follow the path using the signposts you left?  Did you make any mistakes (such as forgetting to color certain squares or using the wrong color squares)?  Next, consider whether you think there is more than one right solution, and if so, how you would decide which solution is best?

Boolean Expressions and Conditional Statements

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Reflect on using Boolean Expressions and Conditional Statements.  Post your reflection here:

Misconception: transmission rate and recovery rate apply to the population as a whole.

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The transmission rate and recovery rate used in the epidemic model can be tricky for those new to agent based modeling.  In other types of modeling rates generally apply to groups as a whole rather than individuals.  In agent based models, rates are used to convey chance of the occurrence of a change or transition in a single agent's state from one state to another. 

What to translate for ELL students.

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A Teachers with GUTS cohort 1 teacher suggests that when teaching mono-lingual Spanish speaking students, it is only necessary to translate the definitions of term and blocks, not the term or block name itself.  The name should be kept in English because that is how the student will encounter it in the curriculum and in the modeling and simulation environment.

Random left and right

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I thought I had was to either add the random block from the math section into the movement section. It is used a lot for the left and right movement degrees.

Or in the movement drawer add a left random degrees block along with the left degree block

Computer Science Advocacy Power Point

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Feedback sought on GUTS Code of Conduct

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--Irene

Implementation Stories - share them here

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This is a place to share your stories.

Meet and Greet

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Good morning from Washington state,