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468 – Coding Literacy with Jason

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Tune in for a coding in education discussion on this week’s WELSTech. Jason Schmidt guest hosts with Martin and Sallie as we look at the trends detailed in the NMC K-12 Horizon Report 2016, and how the adoption of computational thinking across the curriculum might look in our WELS classrooms.

The discussion:

Coding as a Literacy – Jason Schmidt makes his 2016-17 season debut on WELSTech, bringing his own brand of sunshine to the edtech discussion space. Today we look at the New Media Consortium K-12 Horizon Report 2016 and specifically the short-term trend of coding as a literacy.

  • Download the report
  • Access the digital toolkit from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
  • Add Coding to Your Elementary Curriculum … Right Now
  • Coding education in schools – Crucial as English and Math … of is it?
  • Coding education rare in K-12 schools but starting to catch on
  • Coding Starts from Your Imagination
  • How to teach coding and programming
  • A New Model for Coding in Schools
  • Code.org
  • Scratch & Scratch Jr.
  • Computer Science Unplugged
    • News in tech:
    • Education on Air – It Takes a Teacher – Free Google Education online conference December 3
    • Hour of Code – Dec 5-11
      • WELS now:

      There’s still time to participate, but these events are ending this week:

      • Interactive Faith – What Does This Mean? with Rev. John Braun
      • Gospel Outreach with Media – Fall 2016 Online Conference
        • Picks of the week:
        • CommonLit
        • NETA Spring Conference in Omaha, NE – April 20 & 21
        • A Plan to Teach Kids in Every School Computer Science
        • K-12 Computer Science Framework
        • CodeClub
          • Ministry resources:

          Free Bible Images for Advent and Christmas

          Featured video:

          We celebrate the 499th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation with this week’s music video, A Mighty Fortress is Our God by Koine, from the WELSTech Music YouTube playlist.

          Coming up on WELSTech:

          Episode 469 – Staff Minister Dan Schoeffel joins the conversation to share information on Internet addictions. Release date: Wednesday, November 2.

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