Online: Mobile app development for 12 year-old onwards

Kontext / Contexte

Since coding is implemented in primary schools from this year, it will be important to start early and get the children introduced to coding. This course will show the teachers how to introduce children age 12 year onwards to coding with unplugged activities and developing mobile apps with MIT AppInventor.

Zielsetzung / Objectifs

Participants will learn:
- Basic Computer Science concepts
- Computational thinking, problem-solving
- Building mobile apps with MIT App Inventor.

Participants will be able to:
- Integrate unplugged or offscreen activities into the classroom
- Create stories, animations, games, apps using MIT AppInventor
- Integrate creative computing into the classroom.

Participants should be:
- open-minded
- creative
- willing to introduce new age concepts for the young children
- inspired to inspire

Inhalt / Contenu

Session 1 – Video tutorial: Four seasons – learn how to create an app, change the background, move through screens, and respond to events

Session 2 – Video tutorial: Tell me a story – learn how to create an app that speaks out the story written

Session 3 – Live session on MS Teams: Questions, comments, sharing of projects created by participants, ideas on how to extend it to the classroom

Session 4 – Video tutorial: Introduction to Computer Science concepts – Unplugged or offscreen activity Binary

Session 5 – Video tutorial: Flip a Coin – learn how to make a game where the user can flip a coin and randomly a side is selected

Session 6 – Live session on MS Teams: Questions, comments, sharing of projects created by participants, ideas on how to extend it to the classroom

Session 7 – Video tutorial: Get the Gold – learn how to create a game by responding to events

Session 8 – Video tutorial: Mole Mash – learn how to create a game by responding to events

Session 9 – Live session on MS Teams: Questions, comments, sharing of projects created by participants, ideas on how to extend it to the classroom

Arbeitsformen / Approche méthodologique

Self-paced learning, individual work, presentations, group work

Referent, Referentin / Formateur, formatrice

Sharma Madhumalti, Founder and President Workshop4Me a.s.b.l. Simplify Coding, EU Code Week Ambassador, Luxembourg, EU Robotics National Coordinator, Luxembourg

Remarques / Anmerkung

Need to have a Gmail account. Need to have an Android phone or tablet to test the app or alternatively download the emulator form the MIT AppInventor site - https://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/setup-emulator.html