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Design an App! A Digital Technologies Project for 4/5/6. In this ICT activity, students create their own app. The project is accessed through a Weebly. It is open-ended and caters for the diversity of all students. It is student-paced, allowing students to work through it at their own speed. Upon completion of the project, students present their new app to the class. A marking rubric is used to formally assess students and anecdotal notes are made along the way. Year 5 English: Digitial Technologies – Year 5/6: 6.5 Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative designs.6.6 Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition).6.9 Manage the creation and communication of ideas and information including online collaborative projects, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols.

Task Overview: Your task is to design your very own app that can be used on iPads or iPhones. Activity 2: Time to Plan! Teach Your Kids to Code: 6 Beginner's Resources for Parents. Introducing computer programming to your kids can be a challenge, especially for those who aren’t familiar with the nuances of code. Fortunately, in the last few years, a number of apps, software, and guides have been produced that make the often-complex subject of computer coding easy to grasp for young learners.

So where to begin? These are a few resources that parents can share with their kids to help them start learning about programming. Programming Tutorials From Made With Code by Google: Google's Made With Code project has a mission of encouraging girls to pursue careers in computer science. Inspiring Articles About Kids Learning to Code Still looking for some ideas? Coding Organizations for Kids For the non-coding parents, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Coding for Kids Revisited. RoboMind.net - Welcome to RoboMind.net, the new way to learn programming. Bitsbox - Monthly Code Projects for Kids. Make School. The Code Club Blog | Adventures in Teaching Kids How to Code. CodeCombat - Learn how to code by playing a game. CodeCombat - Learn how to code by playing a game.

Try Ruby: learn the basics of the Ruby language in your browser. Learn Python. MIT App Inventor. Get Started Follow these simple directions to build your first app! Tutorials Step-by-step guides show you how to create even more apps. Teach Find out about curriculum and resources for teachers. Forums Join community forums to get answers to your questions. Raspberry Pi. Learn by Doing - Code School. Hour of Code. CoderDojo. Kidsruby.com. AppArchitect | Build Mobile Apps. Tynker | Coding for kids. Code Avengers: learn to code games, apps and websites.

Hopscotch - Coding for kids. Hour of Code Edition. Anybody can learn | Code.org. Code School - TryRuby. Try Erlang. PythonLearn - Self-paced learning Python. Teaching Kids to Code | EdSurge Guides. Every era demands--and rewards--different skills. In different times and different places, we have taught our children to grow vegetables, build a house, forge a sword or blow a delicate glass, bake bread, create a soufflé, write a story or shoot hoops.

Now we are teaching them to code. We are teaching them to code, however, not so much as an end in itself but because our world has morphed: so many of the things we once did with elements such as fire and iron, or tools such as pencil and paper, are now wrought in code. We are teaching coding to help our kids craft their future.

In this collection we share many different perspectives on coding, from a university professor's vantage point (MIT's Mitch Resnick describes why learning to code is like learning to learn) to an entrepreneur's reflections from his cross-country roadtrip to bring coding--and his stuffed dog--to classrooms across the U.S. We should always teach children to bake bread, feed the goats and wield a hammer. Teach Your Kids to Code: 6 Beginner's Resources for Parents. Tynker | Coding for kids. Teaching kids how to write computer programs, by Marshall Brain.

By Marshall Brain Quick Intro - If you are looking for a quick and easy way to teach your kid a real programming language, without downloading anything or buying anything, try these Python tutorials. Your kid will be writing and modifying code in just a few minutes. Marshall Brain's quick and easy Python tutorials Let's say that you have children, and you would like to help them learn computer programming at a youngish age. Let's start with a something important: Every kid is different. The second thing to realize is that real analytical skills often don't start appearing until age 11 or 12 or 13 in many kids, so expecting huge breakthroughs prior to that may be unrealistic. That being said, there are lots of fun things you can try as early as five or six... Games Let's start with a few games. Magic Pen (wait a few seconds to see the word "play", then click the word "Play") Fantastic Contraption Auditorium (Drag the circle-with-arrow-in-it around.

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