Genius Hour is all about choice, but from time to time, students are given a little extra encouragement to try specific new things to see how they feel about them. Coding (computer programming) is such an important skill to have in the workforce today and it is expected that the need for people with an understanding of coding is going to continue to grow into the foreseeable future, so some time is devoted in our Genius Hour program to exposing our students to Hour of Code activities on websites like https://lightbot.com/ and https://code.org/ . On these sites, students can learn the logic of coding with age appropriate tasks using block code. Then, should they discover that coding is their new passion, they can choose to use Genius Hour time to go beyond the Hour of Code to explore various enrichment activities on these and other learn-to-code sites throughout the year.
Kindergarten Students learning to code with Lightbot
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