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.
Code For Kids Computing, programming and coding in schools | Teacher | ACER Coding is a hot topic in education. Estonia is seen as trailblazer, and last year England introduced it into its primary curriculum. But, as one UK teacher explains, it's not all about sitting in front of a computer. The skipping ropes are laid out in the playground ready for the start of the lesson, but it's not for PE - this is about teaching computing skills. 'We call it an unplugged lesson,' Peter Gaynord tells Teacher. Gaynord is a Key Stage 2 (Year 3 to 6) classroom teacher at Histon and Impington Junior School on the northern fringes of Cambridge, England. The unplugged lesson involves children using the skipping ropes to make a grid on the floor. 'They use cards with arrows on and effectively design a step by step route to solve a problem such as: You need to go to the supermarket, but you need to go via the primary school, from the start position. England introduced Computing as a foundation subject into its national primary curriculum in September 2014.
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. 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 1 – Time To User Your Imagination! Think very creatively about the type of app that you would like to make.
Code Monster from Crunchzilla <h2>Code Monster gets kids excited about programming. It is a combination of a game and tutorial where kids experiment with learning to code. <p> Code Monster use Javascript. Please enable Javascript if you want the play with the Code Monster. Otherwise, Code Monster will not be able to play with you. </p><p></h2> I'm Code Monster! Getting Started Lesson 1 BACK How to Play | Lesson Sections | About | FAQ | Terms of Use | Privacy | Contact | © 2015 How to Play Code Monster teaches kids and adults a little about Javascript programming! It's easy to play. Click on the Reset button if you really mess up your code and want to start over on a lesson. Code Monster saves what lesson you are on, so feel free to stop at any time and come back later. Have fun! About Code Monster from Crunchzilla is an interactive tutorial for kids that focuses on action. Projects start with simple boxes and colors, rapidly progressing into exciting experiments with simple animation and fractals. Sure! Terms of Use Oh my.
Getting Better Together: Coding in the Classroom I tried something new this year: integrating coding with algebra. This was quite the challenge. With all the pressure for students to meet state standards, how would I introduce coding without sacrificing valuable algebra content? I dedicated myself to search for that balance between algebra and coding, ensuring that one wasn’t prioritized over the other. My students loved coding. Here were some of the things they wondered: How can I animate an object? In my Getting Better Together video, you’ll see me teach a group of students who take an algebra enrichment course. Grades 9-12 / Math / Technology Please enable Javascript to watch this video I asked students to animate a rocket scenario where the rocket blasts off at different speeds and model it with a table, graph, and an equation. Since this is an algebra enrichment course, there are plenty of opportunities to try something new, which in this case, opens the door to real-world applications for algebra through coding.
RoboMind.net - Welcome to RoboMind.net, the new way to learn programming Alice.org Using an innovative programming environment to support the creation of 3D animations, the Alice Project provides tools and materials for teaching and learning computational thinking, problem solving, and computer programming across a spectrum of ages and grade levels. Read more... Alice at ISTE Conference & Expo Alice is in Philadelphia this week at the ISTE Conference and Expo. We are in booth area 2228, with Professor Garfield and company. Alice 3.x: Emphasis on object-oriented concepts and a full transition to the Java programming language. Alice 2.x: For learning logical and computational thinking skills and fundamental principles of programming. These are the Summer 2015 workshop opportunities for educators interested in teaching with Alice. Click on this link for more information. Alice 2.x © 1999-2015, Alice 3.x © 2008-2015, Carnegie Mellon University.
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Kidsruby.com 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.