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Technology is everywhere and the jobs we know now might not be as prevalent when our students become older. It is my goal to introduce my students to coding at an early age so they can begin to wrap their heads around the concept, and to get them excited about using technology in a different way. There are so many things that we use now that plug in, and having an understanding of how things work and why is so important. I would like my students to have makerspace equipment in the library, but knowing how and why those things operate is essential to me. Games are a fun way to introduce any concept, and I think my students would have a blast playing these games, and still learn a lot of valuable information. The game Robot Turtles teaches young students to learn to code by playing a board game. Players are to move their turtle around the board using cards with coding information, teaching them how to move their turtle left, right, up, down. As students play and gain confidence add on pieces can be introduced giving them further understanding. Bloxels is a little more interactive. Students build a game using pegs in a board. Students take pictures of the board using a tablets and upload the images to the Bloxels app helping them to create their very own video game. They can make their own characters to play with too. How cool would is be to make your own favorite game?! All of the games added to this project will allow students to learn planning, sequential reasoning and problem solving skills. Each of the games are well suited for a different age level as well allowing various grade level access to fun games that will expand their learning.

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Technology is everywhere and the jobs we know now might not be as prevalent when our students become older. It is my goal to introduce my students to coding at an early age so they can begin to wrap their heads around the concept, and to get them excited about using technology in a different way. There are so many things that we use now that plug in, and having an understanding of how things work and why is so important. I would like my students to have makerspace equipment in the library, but knowing how and why those things operate is essential to me. Games are a fun way to introduce any concept, and I think my students would have a blast playing these games, and still learn a lot of valuable information. The game Robot Turtles teaches young students to learn to code by playing a board game. Players are to move their turtle around the board using cards with coding information, teaching them how to move their turtle left, right, up, down. As students play and gain confidence add on pieces can be introduced giving them further understanding. Bloxels is a little more interactive. Students build a game using pegs in a board. Students take pictures of the board using a tablets and upload the images to the Bloxels app helping them to create their very own video game. They can make their own characters to play with too. How cool would is be to make your own favorite game?! All of the games added to this project will allow students to learn planning, sequential reasoning and problem solving skills. Each of the games are well suited for a different age level as well allowing various grade level access to fun games that will expand their learning.

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