--- title: 468 – Coding Literacy with Jason description: "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 […]" --- [WELSTech ](https://welstech.wels.org) # [468 – Coding Literacy with Jason](https://welstech.wels.org/2016/10/24/468-coding-literacy-with-jason) Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | Oct 24, 2016 8:04:03 PM 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. [https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Episode_468.mp3](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Episode_468.mp3) Podcast: [Download](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Episode_468.mp3) (Duration: 43:09 — 39.5MB) ### 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](https://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon-news/nmc-and-cosn-release-the-horizon-report-2016-k-12-edition-toolkit/) and specifically the short-term trend of coding as a literacy. - [Download the report](https://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon-news/nmc-and-cosn-release-the-horizon-report-2016-k-12-edition-toolkit/) - Access the digital toolkit from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) - [Add Coding to Your Elementary Curriculum … Right Now](http://www.edutopia.org/blog/add-coding-elementary-curriculum-now-matt-harrell) - [Coding education in schools – Crucial as English and Math … of is it?](http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/coding-education-in-schools-crucial-as-english-and-maths--or-is-it-20150529-ghct42.html) - [Coding education rare in K-12 schools but starting to catch on](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-coding-high-school-met-20160101-story.html) - [Coding Starts from Your Imagination](https://elearningindustry.com/k12-computer-science-coding-imagination) - [How to teach coding and programming](https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/sep/01/how-to-teach-coding-programming) - [A New Model for Coding in Schools](http://digitalpromise.org/2015/08/04/a-new-model-for-coding-in-schools/) - [Code.org](http://code.org) - [Scratch](https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted) & [Scratch Jr.](https://www.scratchjr.org/) - [Computer Science Unplugged](http://csunplugged.org/) ### News in tech: - [Education on Air – It Takes a Teacher](https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/live/2016-dec?tab=americas) – Free Google Education online conference December 3 - [Hour of Code](https://hourofcode.com/us#join) – 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](http://wels.net/serving-you/christian-life/adult-discipleship/interactive-faith/) - [Gospel Outreach with Media – Fall 2016 Online Conference](https://fall2016.gowm.org/) ### Picks of the week: - [CommonLit](https://www.commonlit.org/) - [NETA Spring Conference in Omaha, NE – April 20 & 21](http://netasite.org/) - [A Plan to Teach Kids in Every School Computer Science](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/10/a-plan-to-teach-every-child-computer-science/504587/) - [K-12 Computer Science Framework](https://k12cs.org/) - [CodeClub](http://codeclub.org.uk) ### 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alt3JUEhhZU) by [Koine](http://www.koinemusic.com/), 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. 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