The teachers that we have here have been doing AMAZING things!!! Some teachers have put their class into Google Docs and do everything that way. Others have used the various apps that we purchased to help specific grade and content areas. Yet a few have completely flipped their classrooms. Each week things get easier and easier and the students are now used to the idea of the iPad and what it can do. We are also continuing to learn about things that it cannot do - we are all learning together!!
We have been looking for something in regards to coding for our senior high school students. They have been having fun playing with the Sphero and the Dash and Dot , but they are a little old for this so to say. Through my research, I came across a site called CodeHS . THIS IS AMAZING:)!!! Once you sign up, you are taken through a series of courses where you actually code. You type in the commands and functions, trying to walk Karel, the dog, through various tasks. Each section features a video explaining what you'll learn, a quiz to review, and then you step in and use what you learned to code Karel. This seems like a really good fit for some of our kids. We have two that are going into Computer Science, and this seems like a perfect stepping stone as it introduces HTML , Javascript and Python as they are also areas they will learn:). AND the best part - it's DONE FOR YOU and IT'S FREE!! Of COURSE you can pay for more, but i...
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