How to Teach Your Kid to Code with Hopskotch
summary
US schools teaching computer science drop below 20% over two decades while demand projects 1.4 million new jobs by 2020 against only 400,000 CS students; response is a concrete tool: Hopscotch iPad app — a visual drag-and-drop blocks language that demos making a circle, a Truth-or-Dare -> “Who farted” remix, a Lab Miami logo exercise and even a crocheted-pattern visualizer built by a novice, all showing playful workability, pairing and AirPlay demos, and plans for hardware integration.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Start
- 0:25Why Do Kids Need To Program
- 6:28What Do We Mean by Learning to Code
- 9:36Truth or Dare Game
- 11:28Programming Your Tools
- 13:05Primitives
- 15:24Tools
- 18:04Using Tools in the Real World
- 19:17Figure Out Your Algorithm
- 26:55Conclusion
- 31:52An Advantage of Limiting Your Tool Set
- 32:46What Age Range Are We Targeting
- 35:53Been Effective at Teaching Hopscotch in Group Settings
- 37:13Good Resources for Teaching and Pedagogy
- 38:59Coder Dojo
- 40:27Games and Apps for Kids Who Are Too Young
- 41:14Robot Turtles
- 42:21What Inspired Me To Want To Help Kids
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