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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Coding blended in school lessons – Business – The Boston Globe
Rob MacDonald scrawled an equation on a whiteboard, graphed it, then asked the students in his advanced calculus class to write a formula to calculate slope at any point on the curve. It was just the third day of school, … Continue reading
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Coding the Curriculum: How High Schools Are Reprogramming Their Classes
There are no lockers in the hallways at Beaver Country Day School. Instead, backpacks and tote bags line either side of the floor while students step over them during the mid-morning rush to class. Nearly everyone is carrying a laptop. … Continue reading
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Computer Science – Building an Operating System for CS Education – The Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education
Expanding computer science (CS) education is of vital importance to the United States. The scope of this challenge is demonstrated in the National Science Foundation’s “CS10K” vision. CS10K seeks to have rigorous academic CS courses in 10,000 high schools taught … Continue reading
Teach Preschoolers How To Code With a Board Game | MindShift
These days, the effort to get more of us writing computer programs has become part of an “everybody should learn to code” ethos that folks like President Obama and Will.I.Am have gotten behind. “We all depend on technology — to … Continue reading
GamePress
GamePress is an iPad application aiming to make video game creation a piece of cake. GamePress will let anyone of any skill level make the games of their imagination with no programming! via GamePress.
Computer Programming for Beginners – Code Conquest
Welcome to Code Conquest – a FREE online guide to computer programming for beginners. If you’re someone who wants to learn coding, but you haven’t got a clue where to start, you’ve come to the right place. This site has … Continue reading
Coder for Raspberry Pi
Coder is an experiment for Raspberry Pi, built by a small team of Googlers in New York. It’s a free piece of software that turns a Raspberry Pi into a simple, tiny, personal web server and web-based development environment–just what … Continue reading
Robot Turtles: The Board Game for Little Programmers by Dan Shapiro — Kickstarter
Robot Turtles is a board game for kids ages 3-8. It takes seconds to learn, minutes to play, and will keep them learning for hours. Kids won’t know it but while they’re playing, they’re learning the fundamentals of programming. via … Continue reading
Go Ahead, Mess With Texas Instruments – Phil Nichols – The Atlantic
Why educational technologies should be more like graphing calculators and less like iPads. An Object Lesson. PHIL NICHOLS AUG 30 2013, 11:03 AM ET Last year, while cleaning out the basement of my childhood home, I discovered a plastic storage … Continue reading
Very Young Programmers – NYTimes.com
By LISA GUERNSEY Published: September 2, 2013 Ten years ago, a computer programming language called Scratch emerged from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Using colorful stackable icons to represent the sequencing and logic of computer code, … Continue reading