When the Code comes marching in
Bancroft-Rosalie, Fremont Middle School Hour of Code events
There are 163,550 Hour of Code events around the globe. Bancroft-Rosalie Technology Coordinator Joy Nolting and Fremont Middle School LIbrarian Cynthia Stogdill wanted their students to be in that number when the annual computer science event came marching in the week of December 5-11.
Nolting's Computer Applications class, which is 9th grade students, not only worked through the one-hour, no-experience-needed online tutorials produced by Code.org for 2016 but also started their two-day event with a coding activity gleaned from Breakout EDU, another online platform for immersive learning games.
Additionally, elementary students used some of the group activities, along with Kodable activities (elementary programming recommended by code.org).
Nolting said each year the Freshman Computer Applications students participate in the Hour of Code by choosing suggested activities on code.org. Then, at the start of the second semester, students follow courses designed on Code.org. Students advance at their own pace through the course work. For students that quickly master the material, she uses extension activities and lessons from KhanAcademy's "Intro to JavaScript: Drawing & Animation" course.
