Sharing Resources and Experiences with “Computerless Coding” at #EarlyEdCon

Over the weekend Mr. Musselman shared his experiences and resources with a dozen early childhood educators around developing computational thinking for our youngest learners. His workshop, “Computerless Coding with Young Learners” featured a brief overview around what state and national frameworks say about computational thinking and computer science standards K-12 learning strands before giving educators and opportunity to explore a number of devices the Burlington Public Schools currently have and use at their schools.

PreK and Kindergarten teachers from Burlington to Bourne attended and had the opportunity to explore four different devices, Code and Go Mouse, Cubetto, KIBO, and the junior of them all, the Codepillar!

@MrMusselman Thanks for sharing great no oncomputer coding resources! #earlyedcon pic.twitter.com/vx1o3zMJR4

— Mrs. Hoyt's K Ss (@MrsHoytsKSs) October 14, 2018

Codepillar. Coding in early Ed.@MrMusselman Fun but noisy! #earlyedcon pic.twitter.com/9DUMINT19u

— Mrs. Hoyt's K Ss (@MrsHoytsKSs) October 13, 2018

Teachers appreciated the opportunity to play-test and develop their own understanding of constructing and running “algorithms” using a variety of visual representations each device uses. Many rejoiced when ambitious challenges were completed and everyone felt like they experienced an authentic early childhood learning model, learning by playing!