Coding with kids
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This document discusses how to organize a successful coding lab for kids. It recommends making the lab fun by having kids work on projects they are passionate about and allowing peer collaboration and play. It also suggests making the lab useful by teaching computational thinking concepts like loops and conditionals. Finally, it advises having well-designed rules, sufficient resources, and good logistics to ensure the coding lab runs smoothly. The goal is for kids to have fun learning and be eager to learn more about coding.
Coding with kids
- 1. Coding with Kids How to organize a successful coding lab. A story of inclusive, fun, collaborative learning #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 2. A bit about me #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari Azzurra Ragone Women Techmakers Lead - Italy Member of GDG Bari CoderMentor @CoderDojo Member of Matera2019 WebTeam
- 3. Problem • How to organize a coding lab for kids which is: – Fun – Useful – Well-designed – Successful #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 4. #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari Fun: kids do not get bored
- 5. #WTM15 Useful: kids learn the logic behind the computational thinking
- 6. #WTM15 Well-designed (rules, resources & logistics)
- 7. #WTM15 Successful (kids get curious & are eager to learn more)
- 9. CD is an international network of volunteers organizing tech labs for kids (7-17 y/old) to teach them how to code, develop apps, games and explore technology. What’s CoderDojo?
- 10. James Whelton Bill Liao The first Coder Dojo was launched in 2011 in Cork
- 11. More than 600 dojos in the world
- 12. …and more than 60 in Italy #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 13. #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari Fun: kids do not get bored
- 15. Projects • People learn best when actively working on projects—generating ideas, designing prototypes, making improvements, and creating final products. • Ex: creating a – video game, – an app – something (MakeyMakey) http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/
- 16. Passion • When focusing on meaningful tasks, people work longer and harder, persist in the face of challenges, and learn more in the process. #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/
- 17. Peer • Learning flourishes as a social activity-with people sharing ideas, collaborating on projects, and building on one another's work • Ex: – sharing code – Peer tutor http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/
- 18. Play • Learning involves playful experimentation- trying new things, tinkering with materials, testing boundaries, taking risks, and iterating again and again http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/
- 19. Summing up: be creative! • Trial&Error • Do not be afraid to make mistakes • Collaboration: share pieces of code • Be curious: experiment without fear • Work on concrete problems/projects #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 20. #WTM15 Useful: kids learn the logic behind the computational thinking
- 22. #WTM15
- 23. #WTM15 Well-designed (Rules, resources & logistics)
- 24. A typical coding session Tutorial Snack Let’s play!
- 25. Rules&Logistics • Mentors ratio: 1/8 • Mentors should be easily identifiable (red t-shirt) • Make clear the rules at the beginning • Gesture rules: – Lift a finger for gesture – Join hands for applause • Logistics (do a check list): – Power strips, microfone, speakers, etc. #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 26. 1. Be curious 2. Kids are competent 3. Be on their side, not in front 4. Doing errors is good 5. Be supportive 6. Don’t say no! 7. Have fun! 7 golden rules for mentors (Barbara - CoderDojo Milano)
- 27. What about parents? • It is recommended though that parents give their young people space and freedom to express creative discovery learning (Coderdojo.org) #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 28. #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari Attendance Certificates & Feedback
- 30. Some feedback - I have had lots of fun and I invented a videogame - It’s supercool, I wanna do it again - I have to say that I did not want to come initially, because of homework, but it has been fun. I thought it was very difficult to create a videogame, instead it was very simple and now I know what to do when I do not what to do. #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 32. Or Tablets: ScratchJr (3-5 y/old) Scratch for: Linux Mac Windows
- 34. #WTM15
- 35. #WTM15
- 38. #WTM15 Successful (kids get curious & are eager to learn more) If you mix up all the ingredients!
- 39. Resources (Bib) • CoderDojo’s Opensource Knowledge DB: • Creative learning • Computational thinking with Scratch • LEGO WeDo + Scratch • Peer tutor • Let’s teach kids to code – TEDx Talk by Mitch Resnick #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 40. Tools&Resources • Scratch: • LEGO WeDo: • Makey Makey: • Made with code (lots of fun games, various levels) • Code.org (classes, tutorials, etc.) • Pencil Code Gim (Open source coding lab allowing kids to draw, play music & create fiction) • Blockly (blocks to introduce fundamental coding concepts) • MIT app inventor (drag&drop interface to create android app – middle school & up) • More on “Google for Education” #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
- 41. #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari European Capital of Culture 2019
- 44. Thanks to: All my CoderDojo friends @CoderDojoMT, especially @Piersoft Thanks to Nick for the #bigcoderdojo video And finally thanks to Matera2019 #GDGSummit15 #GDGBari
Editor's Notes
- #3: How many of you do you know what is a CoderDojo?
- #4: The problem that we want to address
- #11: James (then 18 year-old coder) received some publicity after hacking the iPod Nano
- #18: Peer-education: kids teach each other. Enroll mentor among people that have done a already a coderdojo.
- #20: Creativity comes as a result of trial and error, collaboration, curiosity, being fearless and experimenting: children learn when they play Our kids today are terrified of taking risks, of getting something wrong,”
- #22: loops: running the same sequence multiple times - parallelism: making things happen at the same time – conditionals: making decisions based on conditions operators: support for mathematical and logical expressions - data: storing, retrieving, and updating values http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/ct/defining.html
- #23: As young people design interactive media with Scratch, they engage with a set of computational concepts that are common in many programming languages. sequence: identifying a series of steps for a task
- #26: Do a list of all you need: how many power strips, speakers, etc.? Make always an inspection of the place where you are gonna do your coding lab
- #35: Enhance a video games building on top of it
- #37: http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/LEGO%C2%AE_WeDo%E2%84%A2_Construction_Set Dancing birds, Drumming monkey, Hungry Alligator, Roaring lion, Flying bird, Goal kicker, Cheerful fans, airplane, Giant escape, sailboat storm
- #42: Among the reasons that led the jury to choose matera there is the commitment to teach kids how to code, which is a fundamental skill for the future.