I’ve been collecting resources about coding for the clueless for some time now and thought it might be a good moment to share as the annual Hour of Code Campaign is held in December. Here goes…
The ever resource-full, free, and archived-watch-at-your-convenience EdWeb has an upcoming Webinar entitled: Now I have to teach Coding: A beginner’s guide. Mark the date on your calendar: Thursday December 8 at 4 p.m.
Dorling Kindersley latest blogpost is Teach Coding in 9 Easy Steps and it comes with a free downloadable guide and printables.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is always a great resource for all things tech. Here are some of their suggestions that stood out for me:
· 5 of the Best iPad Games to teach Kids Coding Through Games
· Google Released a New Platform to Help Kids Learn Coding
· A Beautiful Visual Featuring some of the Best Apps for Teaching Kids Coding
· Some very Good Resources to Help Students Learn Coding (and might I say some adults too…)
A few other resources are:
· Codecademy where you can learn to code for free, hands-on and user-friendly
· CODE offers lots of resources for pre-readers to adults. They organize the annual Hour of Code Campaign.
· Hour of Code Canada offers activities. Should you be interested in adding an activity to the more than 3000 events that will be held in Canada, you can register at: https://hourofcode.com/ca
· For a very enthusiastic video tutorial on basic coding, check out Hello Processing! : http://hello.processing.org/editor/
And if you still need to be convinced about the beauty of coding, take a minute (in fact 107 minutes) to watch the documentary: CodeGirl (found on Netflix).
Enjoy, and remember to share your favourites!
Suzanne Nesbitt
- Lester B. Pearson School Board
