Educational Technology

Coding is an essential skill for 21st century students.  'When kids learn to code' , Mitch Resnick states, ' it enables them to learn many other things, opens up many new opportunities for learning. It's useful to make an analogy to reading and writing, when you learn to read and write it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things, when you learn to read you can then read to learn, which is the same thing with coding, if you learn to code you can code to learn.' We have already featured a number of interesting coding resources to use with your students in class, check out this section to learn more. In today's post, we are sharing with you another equally important coding resource . These are apps featured in iTunes App Store under the category 'Code for Everyone'. We went through that collection and curated for you the ones below. This visual, previously published, is also available for free download in PDF format from this link . Ch...

Made with Code is an interesting coding project by Google to help teen girls learn coding. According to the stats featured in Made with Code website, out of 74% of girls who express interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) in middle school, only 0,4% of them plan to major in computer science when they graduate from high school. The purpose of Made with Code is to empower women and help raise their representation in technology related sector. ‘If we can inspire teen girls to see that code can help them pursue their passions, whatever they may be, then hopefully they will begin to contribute their voices to the field of technology for the benefit of us all.’ Made with Code provides teen girls with a wide variety of materials to help them enhance their coding skills. It features a number of creative projects where girls get to use coding to design amazing stuff. It also provides them with extra resources and links to website where they can learn more about coding. Ma...