Coding for your Community

Coloured rings rippling outward from the center. In the blue centre ring text reads, "Community, Language, Culture must be at the heart of STEAM." The next ring is green, the next is yellow the outermost ring is orange.

Course Description

Explore the impacts of making community, language, and culture the heart and core of STEAM educational experiences and resources. You will be led through a series of lessons that will teach you the fundamentals of coding and how to teach this to your students. Along the way you will learn to code in Scratch to remix, create and share interactive stories and games rooted in your community’s culture and language. Your students will feel the impact!

Course Learning Objectives

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the impacts on improved learning outcomes for students when STEAM education is rooted in community, language and culture
Explore the Pan-Canadian K-12 Computer Science Education Framework Learning Pathways
Understand and be able to apply the fundamental coding concepts
Feel equipped to teach your students how to code. Develop strategies and be equipped with activities to teach fundamental coding concepts to your students
Remix, create and share interactive stories and games made in Scratch
Centre community, language and culture to support your students in learning to code and improve their learning outcomes