RadarURL Teaching Learning With ICT: April 2013

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Everyone Should Learn Coding



What Most Schools Don't Teach - Short Film

Starring:
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Dew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi


Yesterday, I was online on my Facebook account and a friend of mine share a video and her caption was really made me curious, "Everyone should learn coding!". "Yes, I agree!" I answered it on my head all of sudden. I have been learning coding when I was in Junior High School. I will share some story. First time I learn how to play computer, I can't stand to not play it just a day.  I often think when I can do something that other people can't do, it would be great. I can teach them and motivate to learn more just because if they ask me something about it I have to know it clearly. It happens! Some friends of mine often ask me to operate computer, even my father and my sisters. It is happy to teach and share something with other people. When internet came to my life, I learned something new, coding. It started with Friendster. Everyone wanted to have cool background on their Friendster account that time, and coding was needed. So, I simply learn HTML by myself began on typing "learn html" and googled it. By having Blog, I also learn how to make code and practice our creativity on constructing a site. This film actually opens my mind how important coding is, but most teachers and schools don't realize it. There are many people who has been succeed by make a code such as Mark Zuckerberg with his Facebook and Bill Gates with his Microsoft. In this 21st Century, we all already depend on technology but there aren't many people think to create and contribute something in technology. Instead of using some social account, I will be much more cool if we can create it. Coding isn't being taught in 90% schools in the world but actually we can learn it by ourselves. 
Code.org provides us how to learn programming computer and how to teach it on our class! 

go to code.org right now



There are also some websites appear in code.org that can teach us coding such as:


This website provides an application to create a project, can be stories, or anything. This project is similar to Macromedia Flash but it is designed for children that has easy steps to produce something. Everyone can make something! Everyone can learn!
By the way I have downloaded the program and have some of try hahaha


This website has some tutorials about computer science programming and it is really cool and worth to try!


This is the most cool website, I think. It teaches us how to create a code, from the very beginning and the most cool part is we have points and badge just like playing an online game!
It's worth to try.


So, Let's learn coding, right now! :)