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Sunday, November 18, 2018

1. Play the Interland game - print 4 certificates.

2. Code a story or game about someone in your life that you consider an everyday hero.

An everyday hero is someone that is kind, caring, supportive or encouraging.

They can be a friend, pet, parent/grandparent, coach, or teacher.

Start by opening a starter project in Scratch and watch instructional videos to program your own story or game.

Parallelism: The process of events occurring simultaneously, either independently or interdependently.
Debugging: The process of identifying and fixing errors in a program that is not functioning as expected.
Control structure: Sections of code that order the direction or flow of how a program functions. The control structure in this activity is focused on loops.
Variable: The process of storing a value, so it can be retrieved and used by the program at any time.

Coding is a language.

It is a set of instructions.

Code tells a device what to do.

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Builds digital confidence: Digital literacy makes children feel more empowered about technology.
Better understanding of the world around them: better able to adapt and interact with digital changes
Changes them from consumers to producers:
By learning to code, you actually create digital things.
You no longer just passively consume what others have made.