CodeMonkey Kids coding app Tynker expands to Android and adds game-making mode | Technology Education technology startup Tynker is expanding to Android, after attracting more than 8.8 million children to computer programming courses through its website and iPad app. The company has launched its Android tablet app on the Google Play app store, including a new mode – also available in the iPad version – for children to create their own games. Tynker is one of several firms whose apps' visual programming interfaces are aiming to help children take their first coding steps, with rivals including fellow US company Hopscotch, and British startup Kuato Studios, with its Hakitzu Elite app. Until today, Tynker's iPad app focused on a series of exercises where children learn programming concepts including functions, subroutines and conditional logic by solving puzzles. It is available in a free version where parents buy the different puzzle packs as in-app purchases, as well as a premium version aimed at schools, where the packs are included in a single upfront price.
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Crunchzilla Teach Coding in the Classroom: Resources from ISTE '14 I was super excited to attend Hack Education (originally called “EdubloggerCon”), an all-day unconference held the Friday before the formal start of ISTE 2014. This interactive day of learning, now in its eighth year, was touted to me as the event to attend in Atlanta, and it did not disappoint. The informal, small-group conversations were inclusive and welcoming. The "rule of two feet" meant that if you needed to move, you were encouraged. In an attempt to heed Dave Guymon’s call to share the ISTE learning (see his blog post on Getting Smart, "Don’t Leave Your Learning Behind: What To Do Now That #ISTE2014 Is Over"), here are some resources discussed by a group of elementary and secondary educators during a morning session on coding in the classroom. Coding Curriculum, Activities, and Projects Code.org: If you didn’t have a chance to participate in “Hour of Code” this year during Computer Science Education Week, consider participating with your class next year. Some Final Notes
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