In our first #CreativeComputingChat of the year, educators from around the world shared resources and reflected on their goals for teaching with Scratch!
This article suggests answers to two questions that many people face:
1. What is the right age to introduce programming?
2. What is the best first language to learn programming?
This handout consists of 2 pages and it gives an overview of the idea of "learning through programming". It will come handy when are trying to present the idea to a prospective teacher or parent.
It provides a review of current thought on K–8 CS education, explores how CS topics and concepts can impact learning the K–8 classroom, and offers practical strategies and resources.
Spoiler alert - it can! All the technology-based innovations around us like the computers we are sitting at to connect and communicate are possible because many people wrote the code.
From the Creative Computing educator workshop, a compilation of presentations, activities, and handouts for cultivating computational thinking and computational creativity in your classroom.