In celebration of Computer Science Education Week Dec 8-14, students, parents, teachers and professionals will all engage in coding.
Dozens of websites will highlight free one hour tutorials to inspire and teach computer programing skills.
Curriculum has been created for use in classrooms all around the world, even if students don’t have internet.
57,000 events are scheduled to happen next week.
Here are some ideas for what you can do to celebrate!
- Complete an hour of code yourself using one of the many resources available on Code.org:
- Lightbot
- Code.org’s Flappy Bird,
- Code.org’s Elsa and Anna Tutorial
- Khan Academy
- Codecademy
- Sign up as a teacher and get access to offline lessons you can do with kids in a library program. Like Graph Paper Programing
- Set up one of Thinksmith’s Unplugged Activities in the library for families to complete together
- Display Computer Science books with Hour of Code Posters found online
- Display Science Fiction books with Posters about hour of code
- Invite Teens to add pages to Feminist Hacker Barbie
- Install Scratch on library computers,and encourage to use them to make something (now is a great time to make a digital Christmas card)
- If you can’t host an event, volunteer at a CoderDojo or other coding club near you.
- Work with a colleague to plan at least one event in 2015 using one of the many tools available through hour of code.
- Encourage everyone in your life to complete one hour of code.
Hour of Code is less than a week away! What will you do for the hour of code?
