Promoting the Hour of CodeLocally and Nationally• Rodney Snyder• April Tennant• David Bock
What Most Schools Don’t Teach
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc
What is the Hour of Code
•“Tens of millions of students of all ages and backgrounds have tried an Hour of Code, a one-hour introduction designed to demystify computer science and show that anybody can learn the basics” www.hourofcode.com
•Computer Science Education Week—December 7 – 13, 2015 http://csedweek.org/
Why teach Computer Science?
•Apple CEO, Tim Cook with one of my former students, Kara Vaillancourt
Why teach Computer Science
•Kids live in a different world
•Kids need to know how to create and change things
• You have an idea! Can you bring it to life?”
•It’s not that hard.
Web resources
•www.hourofcode.com
•www.khanacademy.org/hourofcode
•https://csedweek.org/
•https://code.org/learn
Tips for hosting an Hour of Code•Reserve computer labs
•Recruit some programming students from your local high school
•Don’t be afraid to learn something new!