10/2/2018. In preparation for our upcoming work with MicroBits and Hummingbird Robotics, the girls today started learning to code with the kid-friendly Scratch program. The program uses drag-and-drop blocks to write common programming functions (e.g., when space bar is pressed..., if x then y...). In today's club meeting, the girls played with the Scratch "starter cards" that teach basic functions. Next week, the girls will be working with additional coding cards that teach them to write simple games and interactions. Ultimately, this new knowledge will be put to the test as girls write their own original programs to activate sensors and effectors on MicroBit and Hummingbird controllers. In other news, today we gave the girls laminated cards with question prompts designed to elicit computational thinking, and asked the girls to reflect on their coding on our programming and robotics FlipGrid board. We have been using reflections and FlipGrid for some time, but this is the first time we've had cards to remind the girls of the question prompts we want them to answer. We are in the process of creating a second set of laminated cards that will remind the girls of question prompts we want them to answer when reviewing and replying to other students' FlipGrid videos. The girls are doing a great job with both FlipGrid reflections and FlipGrid replies this fall.
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April 2019
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