Kids come together to work after school. The buses arrive at 5:30 pm two hours after their school day is over and they ask to please just give them five more minutes to finish this line of code.
http://www.campedtechgreen.com/1/post/2014/04/kids-code-kids-make-kids-create.html
Seriously. This is real folks. Our youngest students working on the web, working with apps, writing code. They get it. At these very early ages coding is a puzzle, a game, a challenge. A chance to create a new path. The very best part is this. The more tools kids use the more they say to their fellow coders, “oh yeah , this is just like… and, we’ve done this before on the other program it just looks a little different…, and, here, I’ll show you.” Talk about standards at high levels and Bloom’s Taxonomy. This is analysis, evaluation and creation repeated and shared. Planning for 2014-15 is on. Before school, during the day, or in after school program, no excuses please for not including coding in the elementary day. The benefits are real. Your kids will thank you.