MakeCode: Bring Computational Thinking into Any Classroom

November 16, 2021 ♦ 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Moderators: Stephanie Bass, Sharon Hall and Melissa Henning

Session Description: Prepare your students to use today’s digital tools to help solve tomorrow’s problems. Pattern recognition, abstraction, algorithmic thinking, and decomposition are core thinking skills that can be applied to any subject. Learn how to integrate these components into any content area using Microsoft MakeCode projects and Hacking STEM lessons—hands-on activities that engage students immediately. This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.

As a result of this session teachers will:

1. Review the fundamentals of computational thinking and how they can be applied across K-12 disciplines;

2. Explore MakeCode and Hacking STEM, two resources that promote computational thinking; and

3. Plan for the use of computational thinking in the classroom.

Applicable ISTE Standards for Educators (2017)*: 1A; 1B; 2C; 6B; 6C

* The text of these standards is copyrighted. Please read the full text at the ISTE Standards page.

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Certificates: The certificates for this session were emailed on 11/30/21 at 6:45 PM to registrants that actively participated in all required tasks throughout the session and completed the session evaluation survey within 1 week.