When: Thursday, Feb 02 | 2:30 pm - 2:55 pm

Location: EXPO - IdeaHUB Stage

Days: Thursday. Event Types: IdeaHUB. Sectors: School Libraries. Subjects: Coding and STEM.


Description:

Educators have always been superheroes, fostering and shaping kids and youth to contribute to our future. As technology continues to become an increasingly powerful and prevalent tool in our every day lives, computational thinking and coding skills will equip people with the ability to solve problems and design experiences in meaningful ways.

Technology has also enabled us to design better educational tools that are fun, accessible, engaging, adaptable and easy to use! Learn some first steps educators can take to start equipping future superheroes-to-be with the skills, knowledge, confidence and critical thinking skills to shape our future. While kids and youth are heavy consumers of technology, let’s enable them to stretch beyond that – to become creators!