When your students learn about Source Code

I've created some very kind hearted (not so evil) genius hackers!

Great little birthday surprise!

Self Taught Speed Calculator

After working on our STEAM activities our class realized they needed a speed calculator to track and translate the speed of an object

Class Inquiry Project

As a culminating Task students were asked to use all the skills they gathered this year and create a meaningful and relevant project. These projects addressed students own learning and interests. They worked on and built this blog as a means of showing the world their fantastic project.

http://mrbutlersinquiries.blogspot.ca/ 

Coding

Coding is the latest craze to sweep education. The applications are immense: the logical thinking, problem solving skills, reasoning, abstracting thinking are all so important in learning to code.
For this years Hour of Code, students were able to choose from a variety of options including tablet games, desktop and even offline options. I was able to help organize classes from grade 2 up to grade 8 to successfully participate in the hour of code. It was really rewarding seeing all the options students were given and how nicely activities were scaffolded.
One additional surprise was seeing how some of my more quiet, less tech-friendly girls took to coding. They really enjoyed trying different things and seeing how each little addition to their line of code and such a big impact to the program.
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