The mission of #TynkerChat: Are we adequately preparing students for an unknown future? Can we, through community and sharing, make this unknown “known?” Let us lift up the conversation about making sure that when our students enter the workforce- they have the skills to thrive.
#TynkerChat will be held every Monday, starting March 13th.
We'll be using the typical Q & A format! Join in the chat! First question in 2 min! This week we're thinking about: Creating Coding Lessons. What do you use for great resources? Follow along on our @participate page here: https://t.co/JZuKChEIBf#Tynkerchat
We'll be using the typical Q & A format! Join in the chat! First question in 2 min! This week we're thinking about: Creating Coding Lessons. What do you use for great resources? Follow along on our @participate page here: https://t.co/JZuKChEIBf#Tynkerchat
A1: My class is primarily choice based where kids have so many different learning paths to choose from (quest lines), many of which are focused on #coding - I like to demo the different tools to spark their interest before the self driven learning takes the wheel #tynkerchat
great point about failure :) I love teaching about debugging and how they often need to get back to a place where there are no errors and rebuild line by line from there. When it's not too aggravating it can be quite fun to solve the puzzle :) #tynkerchat
A1: Enjoy an unplugged activity that gets students up and out of their seats with TPR type activity to get their computational thinking going. #Tynkerchat
I'm a big fan of how we learn in informal spaces (wikis, websites, @youtube) so I like to have kids find a tutorial or video and first recreate something and then modify it to play with the code and make it original, then create from scratch "Build. Mod. Create" #tynkerchat
A1: Depends on the lesson. I'll often use a book to intro topics. A Fly on the Ceiling is fun to intro coordinates. https://t.co/8Z9cqaqyVe The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors is fun if Ss will be creating a RPS game. #tynkerchat
https://t.co/tkLz0FOfbW we cheer on the mouse and no one is allowed to laugh when he struggles. There is a celebration when he achieves his goal. #tynkerchat
My students encounter the vocabulary through the activities they participate in via @codeorg@codecademy etc as well as a few game design / programming @brainpop videos and activities they participate in. #tynkerchat
We watched brainpop today to learn about the parts of the computer. Also, @pbskids Magic School Bus gets Programmed, and Martha Speaks Virtually Martha and Robots #tynkerchat
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@mr_isaacs, @codeorg, @Codecademy, @brainpop, @PBSKIDS
I bought beads and ribbon. Ss loved coding their names. Younger students colored in their bracelets on paper. Showed brainpop binary and the @codeorg binary video befored creating the bracelets #tynkerchat
Q3: Always ask three before me. Ask the student next to you, if they can't help, ask someone at your table, if still no luck, ask another Ss in the room. There is always someone to brainstorm with and pblm solve with. #tynkerchat
A2: I use a vocabulary game since my science days. It's like @WheelofFortune / hangman, but it's fast and just introduces kids to the words. #Tynkerchat
Wow, that’s a ringing endorsement-I was happy I could join in. My students love @gotynker for game-based coding, especially some of the #Minecraft modding #TynkerChat
A3: This goes back to what I mentioned before about debugging - I'll sit with a kid and help them get back to a point when it was working and then build the code back up block by block or line by line @gotynker#tynkerchat
A3: I’ve cultivated students helping others in their team, but we usually start new concepts with a related concrete (often non-computer) activity. Robots are good for making coding tangible #TynkerChat
My kids love them. We even play silent quizlet after going over the words a couple times- that puts some pressure on the kids who depend on others for the answers #tynkerchat
In reply to
@pcteachershs, @mr_isaacs, @drezac, @seanmarnold
probably not quite as hip as life in NYC :) #tynkerchat - things are good. we need to start talking about upcoming @minefaire events like NJ in August! and @g4c - you going?
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@seanmarnold, @drezac, @minefaire, @G4C
A3: When students are struggling with #coding its important to meet them right where they're at. I like to help them problem solve by asking questions that will guide them to solving an issue instead of just giving the easy solution or doing it for them. #TynkerChat
A3: My help for that question. "Find the Pattern." Always give students time to study a problem. Pattern recognition is so key to all of this. #Tynkerchat
We’ve only used with standard #Minecraft but with I’m curious if it would work in conjunction with @PlayCraftLearn Code Connection-will have to try it #TynkerChat
A4: I love teaching loops. Drives Ss crazy when I make them repeat things over and over. Also makes them really get it when I take baby steps and go really slow when they give me directions. At the end of the lesson we code Head Shoulders Knees and Toes in a loop #tynkerchat
A4: Any of the hands-on, unplugged lessons that student were immediately able to transfer to their digital challenges. For Elem., dancing out loops and then seeing the light bulb turn-on with writing out the lines of codes later. #Tynkerchat
This was great! Thank you so much for joining #TynkerChat today! It's always too short, but hopefully you got a few ideas! Here's that #Hackathon we did again. I'm sure that will give you some ideas.
https://t.co/GLRZAQcwow
