Creating+Code+Monkeys

 =Why = **Code.org infographic** [|__https://code.org/stats__]

**Add Coding to Your Elementary Curriculum… Right Now** [|__http://www.edutopia.org/blog/add-coding-elementary-curriculum-now-matt-harrell__]
 * logical thinking
 * problem solving
 * persistence
 * collaboration
 * communication

**Coding in the Classroom: A Long-Overdue Inclusion** [|__http://www.edutopia.org/blog/coding-classroom-long-overdue-inclusion-merle-huerta__]
 * 1) Coding is a new type of literacy
 * 2) Coding is a tool to improve educational equity
 * 3) Coding offers inclusion
 * 4) Coding can improve neuroplasticity
 * 5) Coding improves STEM proficiencies

**Learning to Code Becomes Learning to Learn** [|__http://www.edutopia.org/blog/learning-to-code-learning-to-learn-gerard-dawson__] <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lessons:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask for Help
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confidence Through Failure
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keeping It Fun and Real

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**TEDTalk - Mitch Resnick: Let’s teach kids to code** [|__http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code?language=en__] <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 21.3333333333333px; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why Coding? <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Code.org infographic** []

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Add Coding to Your Elementary Curriculum… Right Now** []
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">logical thinking
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">problem solving
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">persistence
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">collaboration
 * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">communication

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Coding in the Classroom: A Long-Overdue Inclusion** []
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coding is a new type of literacy
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coding is a tool to improve educational equity
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coding offers inclusion
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coding can improve neuroplasticity
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coding improves STEM proficiencies

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**Learning to Code Becomes Learning to Learn** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lessons:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ask for Help
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Confidence Through Failure
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Keeping It Fun and Real

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**TEDTalk - Mitch Resnick: Let’s teach kids to code** <span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__ [] __

<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">**5 Reasons Poster** <span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 21.3333339691162px; line-height: 29.0909080505371px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's Code!

**<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Code.org **
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - Physical World, Web
 * [[file:techchicktips/CodeORG-Picture.pdf|Student Codes - Pictures]]
 * [[file:techchicktips/CodeORG-Word.pdf|Student Codes - Words]]


 * <span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kodable **
 * [|Site] -
 * Platforms - PC, Mac, Web, iPad, Android
 * [|Resources]
 * [[file:Kodable-ClassA.pdf|Student Codes A]]

**<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scratch **
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - PC, Mac, Linux, Web
 * Resources
 * CS - First
 * [|Teacher]
 * [|Student] - crowd90
 * [|Scratch Programming Book]

**<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ScratchJr **
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - iPad, Android
 * Resources
 * [|Activities]
 * [|Curricula]
 * [|Assessments]

**<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tynker **
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - Web, iPad, Android
 * [[file:TynkerCodes.pdf|Student Codes]]

**<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Code Monkey Studios **
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - Web
 * [[file:CodeMonkeyLogins.pdf|Student Codes]]

**<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hopscotch **
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - iPad (creating), iPhone/iPod (viewing)
 * Resources
 * [|YouTube Channel]
 * [|Hopscotch Curriculum]
 * [|Hopscotch Challenges] eBook

**<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daisy the Dinosaur **
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - iPad

**<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Move the Turtle ** <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 458px; width: 1px;"> **<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kodable ** <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 576px; width: 1px;"> <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 879.5px; width: 1px;"> **<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scratch ** <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 905px; width: 1px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 21.3333339691162px; line-height: 29.0909080505371px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's Code! **<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robot School **
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - iPad
 * Site
 * Platforms
 * Resources
 * [[file:techchicktips/Kodable-ClassA.pdf|Student Codes A]]
 * Site
 * Platforms - Web
 * Resources
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - iPad, Mac, Android

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 21.3333339691162px; line-height: 29.0909080505371px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resources

<span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 1007.5px; width: 1px;"> **<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scratch ** <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 867.5px; width: 1px;"> **<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scratch ** <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 1267.5px; width: 1px;"> **<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scratch ** <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 1045.5px; width: 1px;"> **<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Move the Turtle ** <span style="display: block; height: 1px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 1089.5px; width: 1px;"> **<span style="font-size: 14.6666660308838px; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Code.org **
 * [|7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills]
 * [|Coding for Kids Revisted]
 * [|Code Monkeys] - edshelf
 * Summer of Scripting by Khan Academy
 * Site
 * Platforms - Web
 * Resources
 * Site
 * Platforms - Web
 * Resources
 * Site
 * Platforms - Web
 * Resources
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - iPad
 * [|Site]
 * Platforms - Physical World, Web
 * [[file:techchicktips/CodeORG-Picture.pdf|Student Codes - Pictures]]
 * [[file:techchicktips/CodeORG-Word.pdf|Student Codes - Words]]