At LaSalle Public School, located in a bedroom community of Windsor, the youngest learners are being introduced to coding – and they’re being taught these skills without a screen
In her classroom in LaSalle, Ont., on a recent December morning, Deanna Pecaski McLennan’s kindergarten students are sprawled on the carpet to learn a new language they typically wouldn’t tackle until later in their schooling: computer coding.
“What’s this?” asked five-year-old Ryan when he first arrived at class to find grid paper and arrow cards on his desk. Typically, coding is taught on computers with students telling the machine which action to perform or how to complete tasks. But For her, coding is not only telling a machine what tasks to perform, but also equipping students with problem solving skills, spatial awareness and teaching them how to sequence.
gives them instructions on when to move which way. Then, she moves to grid paper where the children listen to a fairy tale and use arrow cards to move characters like the Gingerbread Man or the Three Little Pigs. Eventually, she’ll pull out a couple of robots so students can program their movements.at math when she was young. She believes that “empowering” children early on in spatial awareness and logic is important for later success – in the subject at school, and beyond.
“If the goal is to have a future cohort of citizens who are highly computer literate, then it seems reasonable to believe that the earlier we introduce these elements into the school curriculum, the more students will be exposed to them and, eventually, the more computer literate they will be,” he said.“I love coding because we get to do fun things,” five-year-old Isabella said enthusiastically after she’d directed her gingerbread man to the finish.
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