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Exploring Patterning and Movement on a Grid Through Coding
Find out how you can help primary students to learn about patterning and positional language by moving through a grid in a beginners’ coding app geared towards our youngest learners, ScratchJr. Coding can help support development of spatial reasoning skills, which is important for children’s future success in school. ScratchJr is a sandbox-style (an exploration-based …
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Storytelling and Coding With Scratch
In this webinar participants design, build and code a working Scratch application that tells a story using principles of mathematics to support a narrative. Participants explore curriculum connections, learning skills and cross curricular entry points from numeracy and literacy across all grade levels. Note: K-8 examples are shared, however, secondary level teachers may still find this session …
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Developing Computational Thinking Through Coding
In this session participants will explore the continuum of coding from doing so without technology to using coding tutorials like TouchDevelop, to using code to create content. Participants will learn about how coding supports numeracy and enables students to take risks, fail safely, debug and think critically. Participants will leave with ideas of how to integrate coding to any grade level classroom as well as …