Family Coding Days: fun for everyone
Coding isn’t just for computer whizzes—anyone can learn to code, and Family Coding Days is the perfect way to start! At Coding Kids, we believe that learning to code is more fun when it’s done together. That’s why we encourage families to join us for…
Incorporating Coding into the Classroom: A Teacher’s Toolkit
As technology becomes more integrated into our daily lives, the demand for tech-savvy individuals in the workforce increases. For teachers, this means a golden opportunity to introduce coding in the classroom, empowering students with the skills they need for the future. But where to start?…
A Parent’s Guide to Future-Proof Skills
In the rapidly evolving digital world, coding is as fundamental as reading and writing, here is a Parent’s Guide to Future-Proof Skills. But beyond just the ability to program, coding teaches children critical life skills such as problem-solving, creativity, and logical thinking. It’s not merely…
How to download Python to get ready for our classes
Thank you for joining our Python class. It’s going to be a lot of fun, and we’ll be able to build all sorts of software projects, such as building our own computer games, animations and interactive artwork! Before your first class, you will need to…
How to access our classes with Zoom
What is Zoom? Zoom is the program that we use to run our online classes, it’s how to access our classes. You can download it for free online. It’s free for you to use, we have a paid account so that it’s easy for all…
Demo Day at St Catherine’s
We finished Term 2 of Coding Kids at St Catherine’s Primary School in Wishart. On the final day of the program students were asked to present their favourite Scratch project that they have made. This is known as Demo Day.
Let’s start from Scratch and learn to code: Part 1
In case you missed it…
Yesterday afternoon, Thursday 27 April, we ran our first in a three-part series of web conferences: Let’s start from Scratch and learn to code.
Part 1: Let’s build two quizzes in Scratch. Learn about logic patterns, algorithms, data storage and making maths fun.
Click here if you would like to watch the recording.
How to make real impact on digital literacy
Teaching digital literacy is a contrast to the traditional academic education model and results in education that leads to empowerment and lifelong learning. We can develop children who are curious, engaged and creative and grow to become change makers, innovators and creators by focusing on creating lifelong learners, outcomes first then tools and technology creation not technology consumption.
Let’s start from Scratch and learn to code: Part 2
Part 2 is digital artwork and animation movies.
In the words of Steve Jobs, “Computer science is a liberal arts”. Let’s create digital artwork and introduce how you can make animated stories with Scratch. Learn about Cartesian coordinates, algorithms, and sequencing.
Super Saturday coding kids
We have been delivering coding workshops as part of Super Saturday events every term since early 2016. Here are some of the student projects from Super Saturday coding kids: “King Cat” by Aiden Game description: You control a cat inside a castle. There is a…