I found this article to be incredibly
interesting, By teaching children at
young ages to understand and to be able to use HTML it provides the students
with critical thinking, group collaboration and problem solving skills. Through the use of the program SCRATCH
students were able to solve glitches in their coding, create animations that
would then teach other students how to learn what they learned.
This is related to the NETS through
customizing learning to code HTML into other areas of schooling. Through learning computational thinking do
students learn that coding is like crossword puzzles and other events in
life. One wrong word or the wrong
action, can prevent the whole unit from working or land you in troublesome
situations. This forces students to
reflect upon collaborative moments in order to implement those social skills
into real life situations.
I wonder what the affects would beo n
education and future generations if this lesson plan was carried out through
all grade levels by incorporating coding into subjects such as Math and
History. Perhaps then I might do a
little better in Math however most likely not.
Mak, Janice. 2014. Coding in the Elementary School Classroom. Learning and Leading with
Technology. March/April 2014. 27.
