Resources Used
Rethinking the Coding Craze – https://unfoldlearning.net/2017/01/02/rethinking-the-coding-craze/
Edtopia Articles
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/add-coding-elementary-curriculum-now-matt-harrell
https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/coded-success-benefits-learning-program
Osmo Genius Kit (Numbers, Letters, Tangrams, Coding)
https://www.playosmo.com/static/downloads/teachers_guide.pdf
https://my.playosmo.com/en/help
http://yoursmarticles.blogspot.ca/2014/10/making-most-of-osmo.html#.WNAasG8rKM8
https://my.playosmo.com/forum/lessonplan
Dash and Dot – Wondershare
Code-a-pillar – Interactive Caterpillar suitable for primary
Sphero
MIP Robot and App
Parrot Drone
GoPro
Apps – Swift Playground, Box Island, Scratch Junior, Lightbot, Hopscotch
Scratch for PC – http://brianaspinall.com/scratch-tutorials-playlist/
Hour of Code – https://code.org/learn
We had a school wide hour of code. We asked some of our students who were familiar with some of the coding programs and robots such as Dash and Dot to go into the classrooms and do short presentations on the program and have students interact with the coding applications. Some of the classrooms focused on the different apps available such as Lightbot and Swift Playground to begin learning about coding.
As a group we visited classrooms, gave brief introductions to the programs resources we gathered such as coding in Osmo. This was a very successful venture. Students were engaged, participated and asked teachers to code the next day and in the weeks following.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/Essentials_Minecraft_v1.pdf
OTF Webinars – Computational Thinking and Coding in Math and Literacy (K-8), Get into Coding Shape in Math Class, Developing Computational Thinking Through Coding
OTF Summer Institute – July 25-27, Niagara-on-the-Lake Computational Thinking & Coding in Math and Literacy (K-8)
ETFO Webinars
https://etfo2.adobeconnect.com/p8wup2rbrxe/
Apple Store Workshops London, Ontario
Swift Playground, Hour of Code