#UDLchat: Computer Science for All
December 7, 6pm West Coast, 9pm East Coast #UDLchat
What is an Hour of Code?
The Hour of Code is intended to be a launching point to more Computer Science (CS) opportunities for all learners. This week, millions of students, including those with disabilities and those traditionally marginalized, will have Hour of Code experiences as part of Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 5-11; https://csedweek.org/). This is part of a national CS for All movement. https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/12/05/year-action-supporting-computer-science-all
This week Dr. Maya Israel is joining us! Maya is an expert looking at meaningful access to computational thinking and computer programming as well as STEM for All students. In addition she studies instructional approaches, including UDL, to help students become more successful learners.
[Image on right: An Hour of Code Logo]
Preview Questions:
Warm up question: If you could have a robot, what would you program it to do?
Q1: Within Computer Science for All do we think All really does mean all?
Q2: How do we see disability as part of the Computer Science for All movement?
Q3: What is a possible down side of the movement?
Q4: How can UDL support PreK-16 computing/programing?
New to Twitter Chats?
Edublogs Teacher Challenges: Participate in Twitter Chats
The Social Media Coach: How to Participate in a Twitter Chat
Twubs: #UDLchat - Lots of #UDLchat participants use Twubs to keep track of the fast-paced conversation. Twubs has great tools to speed up or slow down the pace of the tweets, and if you log in using your Twitter account, it adds the hashtag to your tweets for you!
Participate Learning's New Chat Beta - Another great way to keep track of the chat and help collect all the great resources we post.
So what's this #UDLchat all about? We're glad you asked!
[image on the left: Twitter logo]
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