468 – Coding Literacy with Jason

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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