Learning Experience with Codes.org
In IDET 4300, Stem Technology, we are fulfilling the ISTE CT Standards. The first standard is 1a: Set professional learning goals to explore and apply teaching strategies for integrating CT practices into learning activities in ways that enhance student learning of both the academic discipline and CS concepts . In class, we were split up into groups and each given a coding term. My group's coding term was loops. I went to the website Code.org to gain an understanding of my coding term. The term loops is defined as a sequence of instructions that is continually repeated until a certain condition is reached. To practice loops, I played several games to understand how loops work. My favorite game I played was called Snowflakes with Anna and Elsa. Snowflakes with Anna and Elsa Summary The goal in this game was to help Anna and Elsa draw a snowflake. The key was to use loops in a way that used pixels, degrees, and repeats. At first, I had a difficult time understanding ...