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

https://hourofcode.com/us/learn

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