Sixth graders are working hard and long to prepare for the Hour of Code event planned for December 8th with the third graders at Marshall. Teaching certificates are being earned by the sixth graders to show they are highly qualified to share what they know about the coding activities with their third grade partners.
Some sixth graders, including Elesia and Kyron have gone above and beyond earning certificates. They have written code to create a program on "Scratch" that will play the song, Jingle Bells. The girls used tuning forks to help them decide the notes that they should use and through trial and error have been able to complete the program. All students are learning that programs and apps have human minds behind them that have spent hours coding each step of the programs that we enjoy using. The computer is capable of artificial intelligence or simulating human intelligence, but it takes a human brain to do the creating.
Why are we doing this?? According to Hadi Partovi from Code.org “Every student deserves the chance to learn computer science to access the best careers of the 21st century.”
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