This one is for parents, certainly for summer camps too. First remember my last post was about iMovies and documenting lots of time outdoors. So, beginning there and remembering that the title of this post begins with the word — summer– I absolutely recommend getting outside and moving around a lot! But sometimes we’ll be inside. And sometimes we’ll be in the car. And sometimes coding will just be great fun. So for those times I want to recommend some terrific apps. In this post I’ll introduce a favorite, Lightbot.
I’ve talked about Lightbot http://light-bot.com CEO Danny Yaroslavski here before. My Camp EdTech Green kids had the opportunity to Skype with him this spring. He was gracious, patient, instructive and kind with these young students. His coding program Lightbot was available web-based through http://code.org which was my where students began their coding work. Lightbot became a great favorite.
Danny, as he introduced himself promised the kids he’d have cross-platform apps available and he has met his promise. Lightbot Jr Ages 4-8 and Lightbot Ages 9+ are out! The kids are thrilled. They are sure they heard it first, and directly of course from Danny the CEO. They’re thrilled too because they can keep playing one of their favorite computer coding games. My kids understood with Lightbot that they were in charge of telling the robot what to do, that they were writing the procedures and debugging the problems.
Lightbot is a win for summer fun. A group of after school students from first grade through fifth have already chosen it as one of their top coding programs, for learning sure, but for a really good time absolutely!