As part of my journey into coding, I have created a PSA (Public Service Announcement) for Tynker to encourage educators to go beyond the hour of code and integrate coding into their classroom as an essential literacy.

There is also an iTunesU course available with resources to support teachers to introduce coding, using age appropriate progressions from as young as 5 years old. There are links to off line options aw well as resources to create projects using online open source resources.

The main resource is Scratch, but there are many other resources to develop computational thinking as well as moving beyond using Visual Programming Language combined with a Graphical user Interface (blocks of code that snap together).

Coding is motivational and creative, both which the students enjoy and when used as a learning tool, it engages them with their learning in other curriculum areas such as reading, writing and math.