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Educator resources. The Maker's Box. Raspberry Pi Quickstart. Tools. X-Ray Goggles allow you to see the building blocks that make up websites on the internet. Activate the goggles to inspect the code behind any webpage, then remix elements with a single click, swapping in your own text, images and more. You can build: a custom homepage for the New York Times an alternate version of a controversial webpage a funny remix of your best friend's favorite site and more! Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create and share your own web pages. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser, then instantly preview your work. A personalized greeting card an online poster for your favorite movie a hilarious meme and more!

Popcorn Maker helps you easily remix web video, audio and images into cool mashups that you can embed on other websites. An animated gif with sound a documentary with dynamic links a video profile to introduce yourself to the world and more! Elementary > LEGO Education WeDo. Summer Camps class descriptions offering Lego® Robotics,Lego® Mindstorms®,Game Design,3D Modeling located San Francisco Bay Area California . Summer Camps class descriptions offering Lego® Robotics,Lego® Mindstorms®,Game Design,3D Modeling located San Francisco Bay Area California . Greenfoot. Outils d’apprentissage | Kids Code Jeunesse. 7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills. It's hard to imagine a single career that doesn't have a need for someone who can code. Everything that "just works" has some type of code that makes it run. Coding (a.k.a. programming) is all around us. That's why all the cool kids are coding . . . or should be.

Programming is not just the province of pale twenty-somethings in skinny jeans, hunched over three monitors, swigging Red Bull. If you're concerned that that a) elementary school students don't have the ability to code, b) there's no room in the curriculum, and c) you don't possess coding chops to teach programming skills, throw out those worries. In no particular order, we have listed all the coding apps that are appropriate for young learners. GameStar Mechanic Platform: WebCost: $2 per student GameStar Mechanic teaches kids, ages 7-14, to design their own video games. Scratch Platform: WebCost: Free!

Tynker Platform: WebCost: Free! Move the Turtle Hopscotch Platform: iPadCost: Free! Daisy the Dinosaur Platform: iPadCost: Free! Autodesk 123D - Free 3D Modeling Software, 3D Models, DIY Projects, Personal Fabrication Tools. Hour of Code | Tynker. Tynker. Ideas for Teaching Computer Technology to Kids | A collection of ideas and resources that might help someone who wants to teach kids about computer technology. “This is the first of a 9 part video series from SparkFun where they take you through the basics of how Robots work and how you can build your own!” Chris Betcher gave a talk during the K12 Online Conference. This page, on Inspired To Educate, lists the tools he recommends for teaching kids to code. Tynker is a new computing platform designed by Silicon Valley technologists specifically to teach children computational learning and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way.

“Programs are very similar to recipes. A HUGE list of videos and lectures to learn programming. Design a customized 3D model online | 3D printing. Autodesk 123D - Free 3D Modeling Software, 3D Models, DIY Projects, Personal Fabrication Tools. LEGO Foundation LEGO Foundation - Research & Learning - Foundation Research - Cultures of Creativity. Eduardo O.E.M.C. Chaves Play and Learning: One Brazilian’s View We human beings, have two basic tasks when we are born: one, immediate and extremely urgent; the other, long term. The first of these two tasks is to survive. We are all born, as it were, prematurely and ill-equipped to live. We are born incompetent in the most elementary tasks: we are not able to feed ourselves, to communicate, to walk, to defend and protect ourselves against the elements, against other animals or even against other human beings.

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