AW! with PIP! My 4th grader doing coding homework

[frkls]

Coding!!!! He started today. They're using a program developed for school age kids by MIT.

Also, can we discuss how cute his tiny nose and crooked glasses are?

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[georgeharrison]

the glasses are SO cute.

[frkls]

When we signed up for the software, he had to indicate his gender by clicking on a bubble. There was a "male" bubble, a "female" bubble and a third bubble next to a blank where a child could fill in their own answer. How cool is that?!

[ginger]

This is AWESOME.

[mx27]

Too cute and very cool!

I think we often underestimate kids' potential and their interest in learning and being challenged.

[formerlyak]

Scratch is a great place to start. If he really gets into it, check out the stuff offered by Tech Rocket and Youth Digital. Great next step - my 4th grader loves those classes!

[elleblue]

So cute!

[balletofangels]

We use Scratch and Hour of Code with 4th and 5th. It is so much fun! They think I'm letting them play games. I'm so tricky.

[Alyssa]

I love that they are teaching kids coding! That's awesome.

...I love his glasses too.

[balletofangels]

Jan 14, 2016 18:43:31 GMT -5 Alyssa said:

I love that they are teaching kids coding! That's awesome.

...I love his glasses too.

I'm the tech teacher at my school and an anonymous person put an article about this in my box. I will admit it isn't my area of expertise, but the article went into how important this is and really where the work force is headed. I gave code.org a shot and it is so freaking fun. My long-term sub while I was sick had also gotten them started on coding so it was a good transition.

[joenali]

Did you guys ever do logo in school? That was coding! Lol!

[noodleskooze]

I want to learn coding!

Very cool.

[balletofangels]

Jan 14, 2016 20:13:32 GMT -5 noodleskooze said:

I want to learn coding!

Very cool.

Go get a free account at code.org
If for some reason you can't, I can make a GBCN class with my teacher login

[Doggy Mommy]

So cute! My students really like Code Combat.

[balletofangels]

Jan 14, 2016 21:52:27 GMT -5 Doggy Mommy said:

So cute! My students really like Code Combat.

I'm going to look this up.

This is the article I mentioned: www.tweentribune.com/article/teen/apple-ceo-more-computer-science-and-coding-education-needed/

[Deleted]

He is so cute!

[onomatopoeia]

My kids are doing Hour of Code at their school (gr 3, and my Gr 1'er is catching on because he sees his brother doing it). I'm amazed.  I think brain-pop has some coding games as well. It was what finally helped DS1 figure out that there really was a point to going to school after all, lol.

They think it's awesome because they know mom and dad don't have a clue about coding.

ETA: spelling and grammar.

[textbookcase]

That's awesome! He's so cute. K is doing coding today!