Get inspired about coding in your classroom

This video shows how easy it is to get started in Primary with coding and the clear links to learning.

A great article called 'Why Code' points out the following about coding:

• Simply put, it is a set of behaviours and procedures that solve a problem.
• Engages, empowers and provides students with control over their tasks and their lives
• Can be done in a 'low fi, hi fi and no fi environment'.
• We already code in our everyday life when we read, follow directions etc.
• Gives students the skills to work in the current and future world of technology

Sansing, C. (2015). Ode to Code. School Library Journal, 61(5), 42.  Access the article from our CEDP Ebscohost databases or email Learning Exchange

To get started borrow a bee-bot kit from Learning Exchange.

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Creativity, imagination and problem solving at the heart of robotics

Students in Years 4-6 at Mel Maria Catholic Primary School, Western Australia, learn via project orientated educational robotics.  Learning is open; students work together to deal with problems and find creative imaginative ways to solve them.

The robotics program at Mel Maria culminates in participation in the Robocup competition integrating science, technology and the arts.

At the heart of such a robotics program ICT is the tool that stimulates creative, fluid thinking and develops critical problem solving skills.