{"id":4697,"date":"2016-11-29T16:36:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T21:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2016-11-29T16:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T21:36:44","slug":"how-to-teach-code-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2016\/how-to-teach-code-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Code in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 2010, I decided to build an app that would make teaching and learning code easy, for middle school students and up. The first version hit schools a year later – that’s when the app started to really take shape. <\/p>\n

Since that time, StudioWeb has gone through many changes reflecting our experience, as more and more schools used StudioWeb in classrooms. This summarizes what we’ve learned:<\/p>\n

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  1. Gamification of the learning process is important. StudioWeb was gamified from the start, but we expanded the features over time, making StudioWeb even more engaging.<\/li>\n
  2. You need to let teachers and students tell you what works, and what doesn’t work with your app and courses. Bugs were crushed, features added AND some removed.<\/li>\n
  3. Visit schools, talk to students and teachers. Refined accordingly.<\/li>\n
  4. Continually update incrementally to gauge each change properly.<\/li>\n
  5. Develop courses that integrate with your app based on years of input from users, and from raw data derived from people using your system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Result:<\/p>\n

    StudioWeb<\/a> is now a powerful turnkey system that makes teaching and learning code amazingly easy and fun. Students are super engaged, and teachers are relaxed as they facilitate StudioWeb based classrooms. <\/p>\n

    Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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