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Promoting the Hour of Code Locally and Nationally Rodney Snyder April Tennant David Bock
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What Most Schools Don’t Teach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5 nchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5 nc
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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.comwww.hourofcode.com Computer Science Education Week—December 7 – 13, 2015 http://csedweek.org/http://csedweek.org/
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Why teach Computer Science? Apple CEO, Tim Cook with one of my former students, Kara Vaillancourt
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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.
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Web resources www.hourofcode.com www.khanacademy.org/hourofcode https://csedweek.org/ https://code.org/learn
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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!
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Let’s Play https://code.org/learn
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