Code – Academy

Subject:

Technologies

Year Level:

5/6

Strand:

Digital Technologies

Sub-strand:

Processes and Production Skills

Content descriptors:

  • Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative designs (ACTDIP018)
  • Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration(repetition)(ACTDIP019)
  • Implement digital solutionsas simple visual programs involving branching,iteration (repetition), and user input (ACTDIP020)
  • Manage the creation and communication of ideas and information including online collaborative projects, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols(ACTDIP022)

Link to other learning areas:

  • ICT

Link to resource:

http://www.codecademy.com/

General Capabilities:

  • Information and communication technology (ICT) capability
  • Critical and creative thinking

About the resource:

The website above provides teachers with the ability to bring coding into the classroom, a must have with the new curriculums’ emphasis on bringing coding into the classroom. This website allows teachers to introduce coding at an early stage in students learning. They are taught the basics of coding through a series of activities that they can work through at their own pace. This ability to work at their own pace allows for diversity of students needs to be catered for. Students can be assessed as they go, through a screen shot of their work, as the ‘codeacademy’ tracks students’ individual progress. They will begin to understand how and why websites have an ‘hmtl’ in front of their links and how to make their own. And therefore create a website of their own allowing again for diversity within the classroom as students websites can be of their own creation. This is an educational opportunity to bring coding into the students range of skills within the technologies curriculum.

Class activity:

  • Teacher goes over the fact that every website is developed with a ‘Hypertext markup language (HTML) code’. And that code allows people to access the website, games, application from anywhere in the world using the Internet. Teacher explains that they will learn more about this through the work they will be doing on ‘codeacademy’.
  • Students then log into their codeacademy account and work through the activities. Students are able to work collaboratively with their peers when they do not understand a question or topic. The learning is designed to allow student to think independently and work accordingly.
  • Once completed students complete an online quiz, which can be sent to them through an email to their Google account. The quiz will be based on what students have learnt through the ‘codeacademy’ website.

 

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