Coding Challenges and Successes
I have been coding with students for years now. Most Decembers we spend problem solving and students love it. I did too. For a while. Then I started questioning how this authentically fit in my mission to " grow readers ." I struggled with this significantly. When I did a collaborative coding project several years back it made sense. Simply exploring different coding activities didn't feel so authentic and true to who I want to be as a librarian. So, it was time to change things up. Student work for our introductory coding lesson The pros: My brain eats up coding and this could have been a game-changing moment for me as a student if I had been introduced to coding at a young age. This is problem solving! This isn't taught anywhere else in our school! This is opportunity and exposure for students! The cons: I am abandoning reading books to students for the month to do this. ...