Primary Catalogue
Series: Coding in the Classroom
Can Any Class be a Computer Science Class?
Taylor from the education team at Kano answers some questions from an Ask Me Anything.
Collaboration
Taylor and Joanna from the education team at Kano explain the importance of a paired or group environment
Conditionals in Plain English
A presenter explains the use of conditionals within programming and how to teach it in the classroom.
Differentiation
Taylor and Joanna from the education team at Kano explain what to do when students learn at different speeds
Encouraging Parental Engagement
Taylor from the education team at Kano answers some questions from an Ask Me Anything.
Formative Assessment in Computer Science
Taylor from the education team at Kano answers some questions from an Ask Me Anything.
Getting Help
Taylor and Joanna from the education team at Kano explain the importance of playing with the Technology, working with others and posing questions to your students and where to get help.
Introduction & Overview
This introduction to teaching coding in the classroom will give you an overview of what to expect over this course. Soon you'll get young people to engage with coding through physical computing, use storytelling to make coding fun, and much more.
Loops in Plain English
A presenter explains that loops are a set of instructions which are carried out repeatedly and how they are used in the Kano coding classroom.
Making The Case For Investment
Taylor from the education team at Kano answers some questions from an Ask Me Anything.
Managing Assessment
Taylor and Joanna from the education team at Kano explain how to manage assessment in four steps; products, process, habits of learning and understanding.
Managing Time
Taylor and Joanna from the education team at Kano explain some of the challenges when managing time teaching coding.
Play & Exploration
Taylor and Joanna from the education team at Kano explain how to teach coding through Play and Exploration in your classroom.
The Approach
The four-part method of the Kano course explained; Physical Computing, Simple Steps, Storytelling, Play & Exploration.
The Student Driven Classroom
Taylor and Joanna from the education team at Kano explain what a student driven classroom approach is, and how to prepare for it.
Troubleshooters
Taylor and Joanna from the education team at Kano explain how to build up students' confidence and how to troubleshoot.
Variables in Plain English
A presenter explains what variables are in coding and gives some examples.
What Are Conditionals?
An animation on conditions in coding and how they work.
What Are Loops?
An animation on how to understand loops.
What Are Variables?
An animation explaining variables in coding.
What Is Coding?
An explanation of what code is and where we can find it around us.
What Is Computational Thinking?
A short animation on what computational thinking is and how it's used in coding.
What Is Sequencing?
An explanation of sequencing and algorithm as a specific order of tasks to get the right result.
Why Teach Coding?
Why teach coding? Lots of new jobs are out there, and coding skills are in big demand; and those jobs aren't just in technology companies.