When: Wednesday, Feb 01 | 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Location: MTCC 203D

Days: Wednesday. Event Types: Session. Sectors: Technology. Subjects: Coding and Students.


Description:

Whether you are a non-technical or technical educator, you can start teaching coding and computational thinking to the kids and youth in your life. Teachers Learning Code has created resources for educators of all types to be able to introduce programming concepts that can be scaled back or expanded depending on the needs of your group of learners.

In this session, we’ll share with you how you can introduce coding in your classrooms, some of our lessons learned teaching thousands of kids and youth across Canada to code and how you can get involved. We’ll also discuss some of the tools we have have found effective and how you can map coding to curriculum.

Outcomes: How to introduce technology into their schools and the tools and resources to do so.

Internet: Require wifi for audience

Room layout: Classroom style