On Friday, December 12th our class co-hosted the Kids Who Code Code-a-thon with Mrs. Caldwell's Kindergarten class at Oak Lake Community School. After preparing for this event over the last few weeks, my Grade 2s were very excited to lead their coding activities and share their coding expertise. I was incredibly proud of the Grade 2s as I watched them teach other (younger and older) students and community members about coding. Each group of 2-3 students from our class ran a station for the event,
which featured tools such as Tynker, Code Monkey, Kodable, Hopscotch,
Daisy the Dinosaur, Lightbot , Kodu & Scratch Jr.
Over 150 students were involved in the event, yet the OLCS gym was often quiet as engaged learners tackled computer programming challenges using a variety of kid-friendly coding tools. Cheers of "I got it" and comments such as "this is cool" were reassurance that coders were having an exciting and positive experience despite the quiet, focused atmosphere.
We had great support from our communities, which is much appreciated. Several special guests, including representatives from Park West School Division, Fort La Bosse School Division, RM and Town of Hamiota, RM of Woodworth and the Virden Oil Capitals Jr. Hockey team were in attendance. Microsoft in Education Canada also supported us as Expert Educator Fellows. We are really excited about the success of this inaugural event and we've already starting talking about what's next...
This is an education-related blog written by Mrs. Leah Obach @LeahO77. Leah is currently working as the Literacy with ICT Teacher Leader for Park West School Division, working with K-12 students and teachers to help them use technology for teaching and learning. She has taught at the early years, middle years and high school levels. Student work, teacher reflection, resources and samples from classrooms around PWSD are included in this blog.
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Thursday, December 11, 2014
Kids Who Code: Preparing for our Code-a-thon
Our preparation for the Code-a-thon has focused on becoming coding experts so we can help others during the event. Students submitted their top choices for coding tools they'd like to focus on and from there we created teams to "specialize" in each coding tool. Students were in charge of exploring the app and becoming familiar with how to code using the specific tool. Each team also created a set of instructions with text and screenshots. I'm really proud of my students' work and I wanted to share their instructions for each coding tool in case other classes find them helpful. Click here to see our instructions for Kodable, Tynker, Hopscotch, Code Monkey, Lightbot, Scratch Jr and Daisy the Dinosaur!
We are so excited for our Code-a-thon at Oak Lake Community School tomorrow! It's going to be a great learning experience!
We are so excited for our Code-a-thon at Oak Lake Community School tomorrow! It's going to be a great learning experience!
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