The Hour of Code takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week, December 5-11, 2016. The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. For the past three years, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School took part in this campaign. This year the Innovation Team stepped up the effort, and we witnessed incredible engagement.
Computational thinking is a fundamental skill, made up of both concepts and approaches in which students learn to think analytically. Equipped with computing devices, students can find solutions that otherwise would not be possible. According to Carnegie Mellon Professor Jeannette Wing, “<Computational Thinking> complements and combines mathematical and engineering thinking” (2006). These computational concepts help how we approach and solve problems, manage our daily lives, and communicate and interact with other people. It helps nurture problem-solving skills, logic,
and creativity. By starting early, students internalize skills for success in a world where exponential growth of technology is happening.
The following video is a snippet of what took place at St. Stephen’s. The goal is to make learning happen with these activities during the regular school year woven throughout our curriculum. This year we used unplugged activities, BeeBots, Ozobots, LED Circuitry, LittleBits circuitry, Dash & Dot Robots, and Code.org throughout the week.
Please enjoy the video! Pre-K and JK are not included in the video but partook in the Hour of Code with unplugged activities in Pre-K and BeeBots in JK.
Wing, J. M. (2006). Computational Thinking (Vol. 49, pp. 33-35). https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15110-s13/Wing06-ct.pdf
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