Welcome to another blog everyone! In todays class I had the oppurtunity to create a coding project for the first time ever! Take a peek at what I have created below!
This experience was challenging for me, and I was suprised that young students are able to do this! I also tried two other projects but I found the flappy bird one the easiest. I appreciate how coding relates to computational thinking and how you have to think through each step of coding. It definietly took me a few tries to acheive a working game!
Another topic from todays class was coding and computation. As someone who struggles with math in general, computation was a daunting topic for me. As far as coding, I have a teeny weeny bit of experience from my grade 7 robotics class, I was never very good at it though. I think that outside of mathematical related concepts coding can be used in classroom for project-based learning. You could ask students to create a game or actitivy in older grades (7 and up), if your school has acess to materials needed. However, I do think that coding can be inplemented cross-curricularly outside of math or computer class.
By using computational thinking students can be more involved in processes that they may not gravitate towards naturally. For example, if a studnet hated math you could ask them to find how many cups of flour they may need for a baking project and if they are invested and passionate about the subject area, students may be inclined to develop skills through comptational thinking.
Through learning about coding and computational thinking in class today I have gained a greater appreciation for those who are math minded and think computationally easily. I beleive computational thinking is something I would like to develop for myself in the future. Additionally, I look forward to exploring more oppurtuntiies of how I might blend these learning outlets and programs with problem based learning for elementary and middle-school classrooms.
Feel free to leave a comment about you own experience with coding. See y’all next week!
