Week 5: Coding and English Part 1

About

In the Coding and English sessions, you will learn about how the teaching of Coding can be linked with the teaching of English, through the creation of digital stories in Scratch.

This session’s activities have been adapted from Unit 3 (Stories) of the Creative Computing Curriculum guide. The activities in Unit 3 are intended to encourage discussions about authorship, re-using materials and remixing projects in Scratch.

In the Part 1 session, we will focus on three activities from Unit 3 of the Creative Computing Curriculum guide: Characters, Conversations and Scenes.

Key Terms

algorithm, computational thinking, computational concept, coding, visual programming, sequences, remixing, events, parallelism, loops, broadcasting, custom block, reset, backpack, pair programming, debugging

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