Title
How to Get More Students Into Coding!

Session Code
2357

Venue
Phoenix Convention Center

Room
221 C

Speaker

Stuart Drexler
Julie York

Description

In the next 10 years, the available jobs for software developers will grow by 5 times the national average compared to all other professions combined, yet as a society, we are not doing enough to attract more students, particularly women, students with disabilities, students of color, and multilingual students into computer science and its related CTE pathways. Many students take readily to block-based coding in elementary school to develop the beginnings of computational thinking. However, the majority largely feel unprepared for text-based coding courses in middle or high school, and when they do attempt them, too many students struggle and drop out of this highly promising career pathway. Come see how to spearhead change on the ground in your school by teaching game design and computational thinking as a way to attract and retain a greater number of students from across the spectrum to your classroom. In this session, we’ll explore the use of hands-on offline pre-coding activities to level the playing field for all students, we’ll share a range of helpful, free and easy-to-use software tools, and we’ll explain how to change the narrative around computer science so that your students view it as creative, empowering, and even fun.

Handouts

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