The 1-2 most important things I learned in this course were the important of exposing students to the opportunities of coding and my experience with two different coding programs. I think looking forward I really would like to plan for an after school coding program for younger students, so that they have more than just an Hour of Code during the year. I think before i begin that, I would like to initiate an Hour of Code a few times this year and encourage teachers to explore coding. The second most important thing was the exposure to different coding programs. I was only familiar with code.org and I thought Scratch and Python were challenging for me, but I learned a lot.
Moving forward, I need to learn more about other coding programs and which ones are most appropriate for primary students. I would also like to learn more about resources that I can use with teachers, specifically in the area of coding. The two program tools I learned about in this course was Scratch and Python. I haven't used them yet in educational context, but do plan to expose students to Scratch in an after school coding program and Hour of Code days. I found out how surprisingly complicated, yet interested, coding was. Especially when it came to Python. Although it is perceived as an easy coding language, I felt that it was challenging. I was proud of myself for trying my best, especially when I saw that I did well on the "Rock, Paper, Scissor" activity as well as the Scratch lesson activity.
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