Incorporate Student Choice

Have students use Android devices with App Inventor to ease the process of viewing their app on a device; this provides them with meaningful motivation.

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Design class activities that incorporate a student's local knowledge with specific computer science content and practices to enable engagement in deep learning.

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When students are learning HTML and CSS, have them make personal websites featuring their resumés and hobbies or websites about another topic they find meaningful.

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Have students use spreadsheets to analyze a dataset of their choice in order to provide an interesting and relevant context for developing their spreadsheet skills.

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Encourage your students to utilize online resources to further their understanding and interest in the course material.

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Assign students an “all-about-me” project to practice introductory Scratch content and to engage with computational thinking through expressing themselves.

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Scaffold students through reverse engineering existing Scratch projects to help them gain competency in important concepts like message passing, variables, and event-based programming.

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Encourage students to work on side projects to make sure they are getting enough programming practice and to make them more marketable.

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Provide open-ended prompts for building projects to keep students motivated.

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Ask students if the games they are designing are games they’d want to buy to keep students making progress toward your learning goals for them.

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