International STEAM Summit - Get Started With Code Wherever You Are

 

Are you an elementary teacher in a hybrid or distance learning situation and looking for ways to include coding and computer science lessons and experiences for your students?

I hope you are able to join me to learn more about the Apple Everyone Can Code: Get Started with Code 1 and 2 Teacher Guides and how you can use them with your students in-person or in a hybrid or distance learning situation by watching the recording of my session from the International STEAM Summit.

Everyone Can Code and Develop In Swift Curriculum

Apple has free teacher and student guides available in the Apple Book Store in the Books app on the iPad or Mac computer. The curriculum guides include ways to introduce coding concepts and key vocabulary, activities to help students better understand the concepts by through everyday activities, practice with block-based apps at the elementary level, and reflection activities that allow for using other apps to create multimedia responses that demonstrate student learning.

Coding Concepts In The Get Started With Code Guides

Unplugged Activities

The Get Started With Code guides contain unplugged activities that get students off their devices and up and moving to introduce coding concepts through familiar games and activities to help students understand and remember the concepts.

Block-Based Coding Apps

Block-based coding apps allow students to learn about coding concepts and practice them in apps without needing to know any coding languages. Students can simply drag and drop the code blocks to create a program.

Tynker

CodeSpark Academy

Daisy the Dinosaur

Lightbot Hour

Kodable

Scratch Jr.

Scratch

Hopscotch

Robots With Block-Based Apps

Dash - Blockly app       

Sphero Mini - Sphero EDU app

Blue-Bot - BlueBot app

 

Resources:

Apple K-12 Education Teaching Code - Curriculum and resources for teaching code.

Apple Teacher Learning Center - Learn about iPads, apps, Mac computers, applications, and integration ideas. Get started earning your Apple Teacher badges.

Google Jamboard - Collaborative online whiteboard. Saves in your Google Drive account.

Google Meet - Video conference application.

Keynote - Apple presentation app for iPads and Apple computers. Awesome for creating presentations, drawing, animation, video, and layout and design.

Padlet - Online collaborative bulletin board application for sharing resources.

PowerSchool Schoology - Learning Management System for hosting courses and groups making it easy for students to find, access, and share materials and learning.

Seesaw - Content Management System for sharing digital messages with families and students and collecting their work from them.