I recently experienced my first "Hour of Code", and for a guy who still has a flip phone, it was a lot of fun! At first I was skeptical because technology and I don't always get along, but after I got into it, I learned that it was fun and much easier than I had pictured. I used Kahn Academy, and could have spent far more than an hour exploring how to make shapes and learning how to write code.
As a future teacher, I can see this being used in the classroom all across the different ages. The teacher of an elementary classroom could go over shapes, make basic animals, and more by asking the students what to make, then projecting the process and/or final product on a screen. In upper middle school and high school, students could use coding to familiarize themselves with technology and create group projects. As a future theater teacher, I could have my students create a character, come up with a back story for that character, then have all the students use their characters to interact and work on their improvisational skills. I look forward to finding out more that I can do with coding in the classroom. I can connect with other educators and discover ideas through social media like FaceBook and Twitter.
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