Technology in Education: Notes from the Closet

When you think of a computer scientist what image comes to mind? Do you picture someone super smart? A bit geeky?  Male or female? Happy or serious? See what our Kindergarten through fifth graders thought! Adjectives Describing Computer Scientists by Students in Grades 2-5 Little Learners Move the Flurb Course 1 Activity In December after Hour of Code Coonley coding classes began.  As participants in CPS' CS4All pilot program I co-teach code.org's curriculum to our K-5 students (grades 6-8 are incorporated into existing science and math classes).  There are two courses for beginners; course 1 for Kindergarten & 1st grade students and course 2 for students in grades 2-5.  Both courses begin with "unplugged" activities (offline). Course 1 for our little learners began with some basic directional activities where students cut and pasted cardinal directions to "Move the Flurb" to a piece of fruit.  Since our little learners had already...

This year Coonley will explore Hour of Code as an entire school.  Each classroom will devote an hour next week to allow their students to explore coding.  Coding is new to many teachers so I prepared a guide that will help teachers make the most of this global event (please excuse a typo I just caught in the guide!).  Stay tuned for reflections after the activities are complete!   CoonleyHourofCodeLessonPlan2014 Scribd Here's a flyer I created after our Hour of Code for parents: