Coding
It's For Everyone!
Hour of Code
According to Steve Jobs...
I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.
- STEVE JOBS, THE LOST INTERVIEW
Start off your Hour of Code the right way! Check out the clip below from code.rg.
Let's Teach Kids How to Code
Run Your Own Hour of Code
Scratch
Fitting the Curriculum
Coding as Problem-Solving
Other Coding Resources
- Check out these lesson activities from Code Academy for the Hour of Code
- Code with Minecraft
- Scratch Curriculum guide, integrate Scratch into your teaching
- A wiki on Scratch, excellent video tutorials
- Scratch Tours
- Scratch Cards - Templates you can easily use to create
- Check out Microsoft's Coding challenge from codegeneration.ca
- Code with the Tickle App
- Have you ever wanted code in HTML! See what W3schools has to offer.
- Other great materials http://web.media.mit.edu/~kbrennan/files/Brennan_Resnick_AERA2012_CT.pdf
- http://learnscratch.org/resources/why-learn-scratchhttp://www.ncte.ie/media/NCTE_April2012.pdf
- PDSB example (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emQb5vtK6gA) or see below
Coding Applications
Hopscotch
Hopscotch is great for letting students program games, animations, stories and much more!
Daisy the Dinosaur
Daisy the Dinosaur is an easy to use app for students to drag and drop code.
Sketchnation
Let the games begin. Have your students code games with Sketchnation.
Floors - Pixel Press
Kodu GameLab
Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. It can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming.
Codeacademy
Learn how to code interactively.
Code.org
A variety of Educator Resources for you to peruse at: http://code.org/educate
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