{"id":5851,"date":"2017-11-20T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2017-11-19T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T13:31:10","slug":"hour-of-code-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/2017\/11\/hour-of-code-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour of Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PSSST&#8230;. Do you know what&#8217;s just around the corner?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5865\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2017\/11\/lets_code-1-300x193.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2017\/11\/lets_code-1-300x193.png 300w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2017\/11\/lets_code-1-600x386.png 600w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2017\/11\/lets_code-1-168x108.png 168w, http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/files\/2017\/11\/lets_code-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Come join us as we celebrate and learn during the <a href=\"https:\/\/hourofcode.com\/\">Hour of Code<\/a> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>December 4 &#8211; 10<\/strong><\/span>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is it you ask? This is a worldwide effort to show that anyone can learn the basics of code with a series of one hour activities (both plugged and unplugged). Its focus is NOT to become a coder or programmer, but to nurture problem-solving skills, logic and creativity. And most importantly when you include reflection, you&#8217;ve added communication to the process. Who wouldn&#8217;t want that! Just imagine all those opportunities to grow your neurons in a community.<\/p>\n<p>There are entrances for every grade and every skillset &#8211; all you need to bring is a sense of curiosity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some starting points:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can register your class <a href=\"https:\/\/hourofcode.com\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hourofcode.com\/us\/learn\">Click here<\/a> for activities from Hour of Code&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Did you gather supplies for your own <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/adst\/\">ADST KITS<\/a> from our list? It&#8217;s time to jumpstart them.<\/li>\n<li>Did you purchase <strong>Spheros<\/strong> from us? Now&#8217;s the time to experiment and organize them in kits. <em>**Need to purchase more? Contact us and we&#8217;ll magically appear with them.&nbsp;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Interested in <a href=\"https:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">Scratch<\/a> from MIT?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Lots of resources here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/codebc.ca\/\">CodeBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Need more information? Ask any of our Learning Technologies Team.&nbsp; Over the next few weeks, we&#8217;ll be sharing more information on how you can integrate ADST curricular and core competencies throughout your day\/week. You can see all the posts under CONTENT &gt; ADST.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSSST&#8230;. Do you know what&#8217;s just around the corner?&nbsp; Come join us as we celebrate and learn during the Hour of Code &#8211; December 4 &#8211; 10.&nbsp;&nbsp; What is it you ask? This is a worldwide effort to show that anyone can learn the basics of code with a series of one hour activities (both&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4642,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[160],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4642"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/learningtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}