Coding is, of course, a hugely important area of 21st century education. Whether they're as young as Pre-K or ready to enter college, coding is extremely relevant to almost every student's future. Thankfully, millions of educators and administrators realize the importance of teaching kids to code. Whether it's a curricular requirement or part of an informal school club, programming experiences are amazingly valuable for students. There's also plenty of options, so educators can find something without complicated or pricey features. In this section, you'll see a lot of different topics related to K-12 coding. These include features on particular STEM tools, insights on coding integration, skills students can develop and more. There's also something for teachers of all grade levels. Whether you teach the early grades or have students with the foundation to take the next step, you'll find helpful resources for teaching coding in the classroom.
Coding is a central skill that’s becoming more and more necessary in order for workers to thrive in this increasingly technological era. It’s on its way to (if it has not already) becoming a worldwide language—and an undeniable component of global culture. So, recently, enthusiasm for teaching coding skills in the classroom has grown—a lot—and kids are benefitting.
There are so many things that contemporary educators have to account for and many of them—like personalizing learning, teaching coding, and using technology—are still all really new. Luckily for them, we can share a bunch of sound advice for helping to get today’s students more ready to take on tomorrow’s increasingly complex world!
In today’s world of education, there are certain skills that all students must learn and certain ways of learning that many classroom educators feel are necessary to accomplish those goals. Though it has often been compared to a spectator sport for much of, well, forever, learning isn’t an experience that is best carried out from the sidelines, especially in today’s climate.
Our world is changing—something that’s readily apparent to a lot of us but others are often shocked by just how much employees throughout today’s workforce need technology and rely on a super specific set of skills. So, as early on as elementary school, teachers are now exposing their students to basic coding in STEM classes and kids, generally, respond favorably to it.
There may come a time when one single EdTech tool might not be enough for all the marvelous projects and unique activities you’re planning for your classroom. You know what? We thought of that too! Eduporium now offers intuitive bundle offerings that feature specifically selected STEAM solutions grouped together to help all your students excel with hands-on learning.
Sure, you can write code to a computer program to gain your coding experience, but we prefer to leave that to more experienced scientists. You probably never realized this, but many modern and simple EdTech tools involve teaching the basics of coding. For example, in recent years, coding has even found its way into the educational robotics field.
Just because it’s summer, doesn’t mean the EdTech field is on vacation! Check out some of the coolest happenings in the tech world from this week, including a plane projecting a video onto a cloud! You may be used to hearing about the Cloud, especially if you’re immersed in the EdTech world but they made news for a different reason this week.
With wide-ranging educational apps available today encouraged by the rapid growth of academic institutions that are leveraging mobile learning, children are now significant beneficiaries and successors of digital tools. Many of them might be aspiring to be designers, developers, and even app creators to become the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg.
While in the office and doing some research I overheard two of my co-workers discussing Raspberry Pi. Two things happened next, and I can’t remember which came first. One, my stomach growled loud enough for my family to hear it back in California; and two, I jumped from behind my desk and asked where the pie was, and who had the whipped cream.
We spend a lot of time at the office here at Eduporium HQ, and we don’t get to spend as much time with children as we would like. When some friends from the Cambridge Montessori School invited us to bring some of our educational technologies for a workshop they were doing for the annual Hour of Code event, we could barely contain our excitement.
