Our Hour of Code was a huge success with students engaged on their particular coding activity.

I heard comments which included:

No, you need to move that one there first.
Oh, yes.

and

I don’t know why it’s not working.
Let me see. That’s because you need to add this bit of code under that one to make him flap.
Oh! Yes, that’s worked. Thanks.

Feedback was very positive where students generally felt that they had learnt how to code or at least to understand that coding can be used to communicate with a machine and pass on instructions. Just about everybody recorded a high enjoyment level for the activity and as a follow-up, I was thrilled to hear this morning from Oliver that he has gone home and accessed code.org to do more of the activities. 😎

This definitely is one of the new areas of literacy which we will need in a future where communicating with machines will be more commonplace. (How many of you have a robotic vacuum cleaner? I wonder if it will be a Room 6 student who invents a robotic dog-feeder or table-clearer or dog-walker…..?)

It was a great day everybody. Thank you for your enthusiasm and participation.
Mrs Veary 🙂