AppDay
Gold level
Published on 8/22/2013
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Learning objectives
- Programming Concepts, For Loop, Conditionals, Declaring Variables
- Game Logic
- Design Features
Created for
Ages 11 - 13
Ages 14 - 18
Subject
Art / Design
Computer Science
Digital/Media Literacy
Mathematics (All)
Music
Physics
Technology/ICT
Twenty-first century skills
21st Century Skills
Collaboration
Communication
Knowledge building & critical thinking
Global awareness & civic literacy
Problem solving & innovation (creativity)
Student self-assessment
Required hardware
PC
Tablet
Phone
Electronic white board
Xbox
Instructional approach
Project based learning (PBL)
Learning activity details
I'm really excited about what we were able to achieve in communities with AppDay. More than 500 students (ages 11-18) from 17 different schools and multiple school districts came together in South Seattle to program what would, for many of them, be their very first mobile apps. Now, 80 percent of these students had no prior computer science experience before they walked into the gym, but there were about 30 volunteer software engineers, computer science teachers, and university-level computer science students floating around the gym supporting the kids' efforts. App Day is all about promoting computer science literacy from an early age and providing opportunities for learning these skills within the context of public education, where they will be available to everyone.