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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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Beyond the Hour of Code
Completed the Hour of Code? Ready for a next step. In this session participants will explore having kids code to create content in a sandbox environment that stimulates natural curiosity and creativity. Participants will explore tools that gives kids the freedom to create content, and to demonstrate their thinking and understanding! Topics will range from …
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Making Curriculum Connections with Minecraft
Minecraft isn’t just cubes and Zombies, it is a digital tool that can be used to enhance student engagement with meaningful connections to the curriculum. This webinar will explain how the idea of Game Based Learning, specifically in the virtual sandbox known as Minecraft, can help build critical thinking and problem-solving skills in students from …