This week was a long one, but on Thursday, I was able to attend a Code.org training with Angie Kalthoff. I've used Code.org with my students for several years, but it was good to find out about more resources that are available and hear about how other teachers are doing things. It was fun to just be doing something out of the regular routine too.
I also really loved learning about a video game two girls created to break the taboo of speaking about menstruation.
I also really loved learning about a video game two girls created to break the taboo of speaking about menstruation.
And last, but not least, we got our copy of Secret Coders by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes. I'm looking forward to reading it this weekend.
***Update: I finished reading Secret Coders tonight and loved it to pieces. It's a graphic novel about a girl starting at a new school. She makes a friend and they try to figure out why there are strange birds and numbers all around. In the midst of this investigation, they get involved in some programing and her new friend teaches her about binary numbers. Here's a video about that part. Enjoy!
***Update: I finished reading Secret Coders tonight and loved it to pieces. It's a graphic novel about a girl starting at a new school. She makes a friend and they try to figure out why there are strange birds and numbers all around. In the midst of this investigation, they get involved in some programing and her new friend teaches her about binary numbers. Here's a video about that part. Enjoy!
***Update #2: I just finished reading Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark and illustrated by April Chu. The author teaches computer science. I loved learning about Ada. She wrote the first computer program way back in the early 1800s. It was the perfect picture book for my coding week.
