This week we celebrate the Hour of Code in honor of Computer Science Week 2014. Technology has become such an important part of our society. Coding is just the language of computers. It allows us to program computers, robots, etc. to do what we want. We are very lucky that our technology curriculum will focus on coding during the next few months. It is great to see the students thinking, planning, and problem-solving as they work with code. Below is a clip from President Obama reminding us how important coding is.
On Monday this week we introduced coding and did paper and pencil coding using cup stack problems by Thinkersmith.
The rest of the week we used a website by Code.org that allowed us to work through coding challenges.
On Friday Mr. Withers's (Mrs. Kerian's student teacher) fiancee who is a computer science major in college visited our classroom. She helped us use the app Tynker on our iPads to practice more coding. It was great fun and we appreciate her taking time to visit our classroom and share with us.
Perhaps we have the next coding genius in our classroom.........
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