On October
7, 2016, was the launch of Canada Learning Code. Canada Learning Code Week was
from June 1-8, 2017.
Canadians were
invited to gather in schools or community places to code. Canada Learning Code
wish to empower youth to learn technical skills where they can be active
participants in the digital age. Canadians were invited to learn about and
celebrate the history of Canada and to showcase their learning through coding a
game using Scratch from MIT. Lessons
were uploaded for teachers to help guide the students to bring their
perspective to telling the Canadian history through code. Canada Learn was also running a contest
sponsored by Google Canada.
My students
were excited because they had just started to learn how to code and they wanted
to see what they can do without anyone helping them. Each group of partners selected a lesson
that was posted on the Canada Learning Code site and they personalized their
learning. The teams worked collaboratively and created their games.
I was proud
of the work the students did in such a short time.
On June 30,
2017, I received wonderful news that my
class won the #Canada150 contest. We won Chromebooks for my class from Google.
The winning
game was from Kevin and Gabriela
Below is my
class studio with all the submitted games. To "All", a job well done!!
Click below for the announcement and to view the Digital Scrapbook.
Thank you to @CanadaLearningCode and @Google!
