Welcome to Beyond the Hour of Code, I am your host Dr. Sam Patterson, makerspace teacher and author of Programming in the Primary Grades, Beyond the Hour of Code.Not everyone is super excited about coding, especially teachers. My love is learni

Creating Authentic Learning Experiences through #Programming and @Arduino

Apr 7th, 2018 9m 14s

The most challenging task of trying to teach code in a way that is authentic to students' interests and lives is being able to show code coding is authentic to my own interests.I don’t come to code through a love of tech. I have a poetry degree

Teaching Programming to our PreReaders: How can Coding Teach Students to Read?

Mar 30th, 2018 13m 48s

In many ways, my whole career changed when I asked the question, “If I can teach coding to pre-readers, can coding help them learn to reading?” This episode of Beyond the hour of code talks through my learning process and highlights some of the

Using Robots in your Elementary Makerspace

Mar 23rd, 2018 10m 47s

The school year is kicking off and I am excited to share a terrific series of podcasts with you about teaching with robots. Below is the beginning of the post, be sure to check out the full article on Beyond The Hour of Code.Lesson Design in Th

What can we Teach Through Coding and Programming Activities?

Mar 23rd, 2018 7m 45s

How to Teach Anything Through CodeWelcome to episode 2 of Beyond the Hour of Code, a podcast to help teachers do great work. In this episode, we take on a couple of the big ideas we need to use code the best way possible for our elementary stud

STEM Education for All Educators: What is Block-Based Coding?

Mar 18th, 2018 11m 49s

App-Based Blockly ProgrammingWelcome to Beyond the Hour of Code, the podcast to help you use programming to teach core content. I am Sam Patterson and in today's episode, we talk about blockly-based programming in Apps. For a more detailed disc

Can Classroom Robots be used to address Social and Emotional Learning?

Mar 11th, 2018 10m 33s

In this episode of Beyond the Hour of Code, we DARE TO SHARE and we SHARE to CARE! Big slogans made of short words and the power of programming and robots to help your kids learn how to share jobs and resources in the classroom.A side note last

The TeacherCast Educational Network Relaunches .... Check it out Today!

Feb 26th, 2018 27m 17s

In this episode of the TeacherCast Educational Network, we take a look at our brand new website and what it took to make the decision to finally merge all of the content on TeacherCast down to one single website. The post The TeacherCast Educ

Welcome to Beyond the Hour of Code

Feb 1st, 2018 8m 48s

Welcome to Beyond the Hour of Code!Hello and welcome to the first episode of a brand new Podcast called Beyond the Hour of Code. If you are an educator or parent looking for information about how to enhance your classroom lessons and activities

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