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Are there materials already available to help teach coding at all levels?

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It would be helpful to know what the schools that feed us our accomplishing and implementing around coding, as well as what the schools we feed are doing.

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Do we have coding in the tech standards? Should we be teaching some at each level beyond the hour of code to prepare students for computer science in high school?

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Materials that will intergrate computational thinking into curriculum

Opportunity for pd/observations of teachers who are currently embedding coding language and skills into their curriculum

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What do the secondary educators need students to be able to do when they enter the next level?

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- Teachers need professional development
- We need to know what goals each grade level should have.
- Once we have goals, we can know what kind of curriculum to develop
- We need to establish a common language (MakerSpaces vs. Rocky's Den, etc.)

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Where is everyone at?
Need an inventory?
Relate to all curricular areas?
Equal access?
Integrated, not sep?
Training/workshops?
Competency based....
DIGITAL BADGES!!!!!!

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Need: time to learn and explore the types of coding languages that we will bring to the students

Being a middle school, what is coming up from elementary? And what would the high schools like to see coming from us?

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-In 4 years a digitally literate HS graduate should be able to speak at least one coding language, how computational and analytical skills.
-Offer trainings during the school day, give examples of cross-curricular examples, opening up more sections for schools

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-Combining coding with curriculum
-Vertical planning/scope and sequence
-Strongly recommended materials

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-how much of a master do you need to be to get them to learn?
-what will the teacher expectations be?
-we could possibly run coding classes during NEST?
-can we partner with other teachers
-do we have a scope and sequence? What does that look like?

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ATTENTION TO DETAIL

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-computational skills
-problem solving ability
-math

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Computational thinking
Adaptability: Need to be able to pick-up new languages quickly
Wide range of knowing technical use/applications in all fields

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Basics of how & why coding exists
Base understanding of how things work

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weaves logic with right brain and ties together interdisciplinary thinking. Takes the horse and allows us to make it into a car...

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How to program SOMETHING

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-gain balance if you are more right-brained

-edge out competition during hiring processes

-increases ability to create more well-thought-out decisions

-enhances career, skills, or interests you already have

-allows you to build your own platform and give yourself a voice

-cut business costs

-anyone can learn it

-nothing to do with talent or aptitude – everything to do with practice and perseverance

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Coding allows you to understand your technology well enough to manipulate it and increase your overall productivity.

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Coding is becoming a desirable skill for more and more jobs and for more and more industries OUTSIDE of computer science and IT.

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Learning how to learn.
Formatting brain to new mindset.
Coding is useful for all.

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Identify and understand needs; visually express logic

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-Higher paying jobs
-better job opportunities
-the better students become the more they can charge for services
-computational skills that can be used beyond just the computer world
-can make computers do cool stuff
-complex thought processes that requires patience

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Postive
Understand how technology works
Pump up your website
Improve focus and problem solving skills
Multiply productivity
Experience Flow
Negative
Can be hair-tearing experience

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Positives for younger students - computational skills and critical thinking skills.

Computational Thinking promotes problem solving, and identifying relationships between subjects as well as between school and life outside of the classroom.

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Students are prepared for the demands of the changing workforce.

Students are engaged in the content and excited by what they are learning

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Coding helps students learn how to learn.

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Being able to build something from their conceptual ideas, with real world application and relevancy.

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Coding is empowering; knowing coding creates self-reliant workers

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Ability to speak the same language as a programmer is an asset in any future job.

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Coding professionals can make their own hours, working less hours for more money. This opens up time to pursue "side project dreams" and other interests.

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I read the article "3 Reasons Why you should absolutely Learn to Code" and I really appreciate the quote "Coding is about learning how to learn". So often we stress this in our students. We want them leaving our classrooms knowing how to learn rather than teaching them. More positives -
Computational thinking
Job opportunities
future ready skills

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Develop logic and problem solving skills

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What students need to know today and what they will need to know in 5 years will be very different. The rate of change in the tech world snowballs. We do not have enough college grads to fill the positions needed and therefore have to hire outside our country. Students, currently, need to be more fluent in software development, technology development in the medical field, social media design... the list goes on and on. Teachers will need to be able to adapt to this every changing world to meet the needs of our students aznd preparing them for the world outside of high school.

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Empower to find their own solutions to problems they see.

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Self-motivated learning
Learning how to learn
Lifelong learning
Flexible learning environment
Opens up the unknown
Prepare students for the unknown future

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Possibility of getting a high-wage job.
Many choices and freedoms in choosing jobs.
Automation is being incorporated into more and more jobs and careers.
Digital literacy will become essential.
Understanding programming helps people interact more with technology.