It was Angry Bird against the pig, and the pig didn’t stand a chance with fourth graders from Mt. Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School controlling the moves. Instead of playing Angry Birds, Sarah Harmon and her classmates were creating the bird’s move through computer coding. Harmon plotted how to move her Angry Bird and eliminate the pesky pig. She was creating rather than playing the game as she figured out how many moves and which way the bird would need to turn to get the pig. Last week in computer lab, all Mt. Hope/Nanjemoy kindergarten through fifth-grade students learned about computer coding through an “Hour of Code,” a nationwide campaign to expose students to an hour of computer coding through drag and drop programming. Students learned how to complete steps with video tutorials taught by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and Facebook’s Mark Zukerberg, and were encouraged by Mt. Hope’s Hour of Code Coordinator Lisa Sweeney as she walked around helping children when they got stumped by a code. “Anybody can learn computer code. That means everybody in this room can learn,” Sweeney told the class. “This is going to be fun,” echoed through the class as the Angry Bird maze popped up […]
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