What do you do when you have 24 students on their way to a Robotics Club meeting and you find out from a technician that your laptop hard drives have mutinied and need to be re-imaged? If you are like me, you consider asking the technician if he would like to switch jobs for the … Read more
I recently started dipping my toe into Twitter chats, and participated in a few regarding teaching kids how to code. During these chats, I’ve come across a few more fabulous resources that I want to share with any of you who are considering the idea of teaching programming to kids. I recently started dipping my … Read more
I’m finally introducing my third graders to programming. We are studying systems thinking this year, and I feel like computer programming fits right into this. This group has not been exposed to programming, yet. So, I thought I would use a fun activity suggested by Kodable in its Learning Guide to get the ball rolling. … Read more
I’ve been using this blog and Pinterest to promote the importance of teaching programming to students for awhile now. One of the benefits that I see is how coding makes natural connections to Systems Thinking. Some of my favorite FREE programming apps are: Daisy the Dinosaur, Cargo-Bot, and Hopscotch. While these are definitely fun apps, … Read more
