Teaching Kids To Code
My goal is to show people how anyone can code, and to share strategies for getting even those who may be reluctant to do so, to teach just a little bit of programming to their students.
My goal is to show people how anyone can code, and to share strategies for getting even those who may be reluctant to do so, to teach just a little bit of programming to their students.
I’ve analyzed the curriculum for students in Grades Kindergarten to 7, compared that to the public school curriculum in the United Kingdom, and have created a Computational Thinking Scope and Sequence that integrates all the core subjects in the province of British Columbia. This document is meant to support teachers in their efforts to teach every student how to code.
I designed a mixed-method, causal-comparative action research project to determine how one-to-one technology affects students’ engagement and approach to learning when it is introduced into a Grade 7 classroom. This action research has been designed after noticing that one-to-one technologies are gaining popularity in elementary and secondary education, and also remarking on the need for educational technology research that focuses on elementary aged students.