Using free iPad apps, introducing computer science programming can be a super fun and epic learning experience for kids. This session helps provide some stellar ideas to help inspire kids to code.

Inspiring Kids to Code: Introducing Kids to Computer Programming on the iPad
Coding is kids superpower


Play 5 minute video from Hour of Code.
"What Most Schools Don't Teach" (5:44)
http://youtu.be/nKIu9yen5nc

Introducing a new app?
Focus on exploring and playing

Programming interface helps make learning complex concept fun and easy

Let kids fail once or twice
Learn by trial and error

Some inspirational songs to play while coding:
- Roar by Katy Perry
- Brave, Sara Boreilles
- We can change the world by Bridget Mendler
- I’ll Shoot the Moon by Five for Fighting (what kind of world do you want…)
- A different Side of Me, Allstar Weekend
- With a Little Help from my Friends, Joe Cocker (because programming is a team effort!)

Paul Hamilton has an awesome iBook:
Teaching Students to Code on the iPad
https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/teaching-students-to-code/id729919770?mt=1...

Every Kid can have a Super Power! It’s Coding
Next Steps? Try Scratch on the computer.

Resources Beyond the iPad:
- Hour of Code by Jacqui Murray (links to coding web applications)
http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/hour-of-code-2/

- Codecademy – Learn to code interactively, for free
http://www.codecademy.com/

- CodeHS – Online high school learning experience to start programming

iPad Apps:
Symbaloo Webpage with Links
http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/codingfork-2nd


11 Apps for Coding: From beginners to masters
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2014/01/17/apps-coding-education-612/?


Kodable Ages 5+ A game of programming FUNdamentals, Super fun journey through Smeeborg, PDF documentation: Kodable_Guide.PDF: http://goo.gl/wrQz4S

Daisy the Dinosaur Ages 6+ (give the kiddos a challenge for example tell them to choreograph a dance for the dino and do it together)

Hopscotch Ages 7-11 Learn to program and get creative and build games.

Light-Bot Ages 4+, iPad/Computer, Coding entertaining and challenging

Cargo-Bot Coded on an iPad using Codea App ($10) – practice code-like thinking skills, more challenging than Bee-Bot
Bee-Bot Practice code-like thinking skills
GamePress Create, Share, Play Games

Resources:
Hour of Code, tutorials to inspire programming
http://csedweek.org/learn2

http://Code.org

Coding with the Littles, Where to Start on the iPad K-4 by Sam Patterson
http://www.mypaperlessclassroom.org/2013/10/coding-with-littles-where-to-st...

5th Grade Hopscotch Examples by Rae Fearing
http://www.edtechyness.blogspot.com/2013/07/winners-of-5th-grade-code-in-pr...

Hopscotch in Maths Class (learning angles) by John Stillitano
http://ozdigitalclassroom.com/2013/11/05/hopscotch-in-the-maths-classroom/

Coding and Robotics Learning Continuum by Verena Roberts
https://docs.google.com/a/mbusdapps.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmhXfOde53yqdG...

Teaching Students to Program in One Hour od Code by Dave Guyman
http://gettingsmart.com/2013/11/teaching-students-program-one-hour-code/

This is Why Kids Need to Learn to Code by Doug Belshaw
http://dmlcentral.net/blog/doug-belshaw/why-kids-need-learn-code

Schools Aren’t Teaching Kids to Code: Here’s Who’s Filling the Gap by Selena Larsen (Hour of Code)
http://readwrite.com/2013/10/18/kids-learn-code-programming?awesm=readwr.it...


-iBooks:
1. Paul Hamilton, Teaching Students to Code on the iPad
https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/teaching-students-to-code/id729919770?mt=1...

2. Wes Fryer, Hopscotch Challenges
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/ebooks/hopscotch-challenges/


Resources Beyond the iPad:

Comprehensive list by Patrice Gans: https://twitter.com/reesegans

Hour of Code by Jacqui Murray (links to coding web applications)
http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/hour-of-code-2/

Codecademy – Learn to code interactively, for free
http://www.codecademy.com/

CodeHS – Online high school learning experience to start programming

Kodu (Windows Operating System)