I really appreciated Rich coming to talk with us, this may have been the most engaging class of the term.
So why engage kids with learning code?
- understand technology better
- help develop problem solving and computational skills
- interactive, help math and logic come alive
- can be fun, can be tied into existing interests
- many activities online
We explored beginner coding on a code.org, below is me exploring the site a bit. I think this is a great tool if you have the technology in class and students can continue to do it at home if they get into it. Scratch is another tool that looks promising but I haven’t gotten a chance to really look at it. It is however the same simple block coding.