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Making the Most of Hour of Code and Beyond

Hope Chafiian, The Spence School, The Logo Foundation

Wednesday, June 28, 9:00–10:00 am

Intro

Hands-on

Discussion & reflection

Next Steps

Reflections on the Hour of Code

Michael Tempel, President, Logo Foundation

http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/resources/papers/pdf/hoc.pdf

Making the Most of Hour of Code and Beyond

“Logo is the name of a philosophy of education and a continually evolving family of programming languages

that aid in its realization.”Harold Abelson

Making the Most of Hour of Code and Beyond

Different Approaches to Introducing Coding

Solving Puzzles

Creating Projects

Puzzle Solving

Creating a Project

Scratch - open ended Puzzles - restrictive

Bureau of Labor Statistics 2016

Computer Programmers

Software Developers

$79,840 $102,280

Decline 8% Growth 17% Job OutlookToday - 2024

Median Pay

Tutorial Time with ScratchHour of Code

https://hourofcode.com/us/learn

Scratch mini tutorialshttps://scratch.mit.edu/microworlds/go

Scratch cardshttps://scratch.mit.edu/info/cards/

Reflect and Share● What do you want to learn more about?● What is something you still want to figure out?● What are you proud of?● What did you get stuck on? How did you get unstuck?● What was challenging about this?● What did you learn?

Next Steps for teaching CodingWhat is your goal in teaching Coding?

How do you want your students to acquire skills?

Scratch Tutorials

● Suggestions for extending projects● share your project! ● Remix● Communicate with other scratchers

Continue your own learning

Logo Summer Institutes: logofoundation.org/summer

Scratch for Educators: http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/

Reflections on the Hour of Code

Michael Tempelhttp://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/resources

/papers/pdf/hoc.pdf

hchafiian@spenceschool.org