I am excited to be presenting at the MNCodes Summit taking place later this month on November 14.
Come join me for my session Get Started with Code to learn more about how Apple's Everyone Can Code curriculum helps young coders in K-5 get started with programming and develop coding skills through the fun and interactive iPad, unplugged activities to introduce coding concepts, and block-based coding apps like CodeSpark academy and Tynker.
I will also be sharing 10 Steps To Hosting a Virtual Coding Camp Focused on App Design And Prototyping outlining from start to finish how to organize and run a summer or after school coding camp for students to introduce them to app development concepts and get them excited about computer science classes through creating working models or app prototypes to solve a community problem or challenge.
Get Started With Code Wherever You Are
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.
Get Started With Code 1 and 2 Teacher Guides
Coding Concepts In The Get Started With Code Guides
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.
Join me for the session to learn more!
