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Rationale for Teaching Coding Skills

Rationales for teaching students how to code. Especially good ideas for teachers of special education students.

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Rationale for Teaching Coding Skills

Rationales for teaching students how to code. Especially good ideas for teachers of special education students.

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Different Rationales for Teaching Coding

by Charles Bender, (c) 2016

Coding to follow a set of instructions (for example, to follow instructions to create an


animation) (ScratchJr; Hopscotch)

Coding to create a set of instructions (for example, to get a character to move in a certain
direction) (Lightbot HOC; Blockly; Kodable; The Foos, Daisy the Dinosaur)

Coding to change an existing set of instructions (for example, to fiddle with someone
else’s existing code to modify art) ([Link]; Hopscotch)

Coding to teach how to find errors to get a program to work properly (Daisy the
Dinosaur, [Link])

Coding to teach cause and effect (changing code changes results) (all)

Coding to push boundaries, foster confidence (by changing someone else’s code, by
improving/simplifying/beautifying the code (such as by reducing the number of steps)
(all)

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