2013-SGVCUE

Resources From Presentation

• Video: What Most Schools Don't Teach
• Framework for 21st Century Learning
• Code.org Stats

Web-based / Installed

• Blockly Apps
  • David Wees' 2013 Reform Symposium presentation, Programming in Math Class
• TurtleArt
  • Try Turtle Academy and write the code rather than dragging blocks
• BotLogic.us
• Scratch
  • ScratchED
  • Quick Edit Option
  • Scratch 2 Offline Editor Download
  • Ball Physics
  • My Student's Scratch projects
• Scratch Jr.
• Tynker
  • 6th Grade Math Game
  • 3rd Grade Baylands

Apps

• Kodable
• Light-Bot
  • Light-Bot Competitions
  • Armor Games - Light-Bot
  • Armor Games - Light-Bot 2.0
• Hopscotch
  • Daisy the Dinosaur App
• Hakitzu
  • Video: Hakitzu Trailer
  • Video: Hakitzu: the app teaching kids to code
• Codea
  • Video: Codea - Make Games on Your iPad
  • Cargo Bot App

Upper Elementary & Older (typically)

• Code Monster
• Code Maven
• Bootstrap
  • Video: Bootstrap 2012 Video
• Codecademy
  • Video: Teaching for Tomorrow: Learning with Codecademy
• Code Avengers
• Website Examples:
  • Cats are purfect pets
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Editey
• App Inventor
  • Video: Use MIT App Inventory

How To Fit It In

• Genius Hour
• 20% Time
• After School Programming Club
• The Hour of Code

Additional Resources

What if I Don't Have Computers or Other Devices?

• Computer Science Unplugged: Programming Languages
• Buy a Bee-Bot for your classroom
  • Get the Buzz on Bee-Bots
  • BeeBots Live Binder
  • Bee-Bot App (device is needed for this)
• Get your hands on a Robot Turtles game or two!
• How To Train Your Robot
• Programming Without a Computer

More Web-based/Installed Options:

• Khan Academy
• LearnStreet - Teach Coding for Free
  • Javascript, Python, Ruby
• Espresso Coding
  • Free until October 2014 - not sure about free in the US?
• CoffeeScript (simplify creation of Javascript)
• Teaching Kids Programming - Small Basic
• Alice
• Stencyl

Other Things of Interest:

• Infinite Thinking Machine: Coding to Learn
• Video: CS & IT Symposium: Teaching Computer Programming to Middle School Students
• Video: Mitch Resnick: Let's Teach Kids to Code
• Video: CS on Air: Java with Greenfoot
• Teaching Kids to Think Using Scratch
• Coding is for Everybody Webinars
• Coding Nation: 300+ Resources
• Teach Computer Science? Join CSTA