The guest speaker today was focused on coding. Directly at the beginning of the presentation, the speaker made it clear that the teachers do NOT need to be experts on this subject, but they need to be able to know how to use it and possibly integrate it into the classroom, even if it is only in a small way.
Hands-on portion: For the game, I chose I decided on the Scratch app. This was my choice because, at my Wednesday visits, the teacher and class I am observing are working on Scratch right now. Most of the kids have already played this game and are nearly experts on the game. Whereas me in this class attempting to make my ’Sprite1’ either say hello or move is a challenge in itself. This shows how advanced the new generation is concerning technology and coding. Even while the Scratch game instructions were being taught by the teacher on Wednesday’s visit, some of the students knew how to make more advanced commands and adjustments to there scratch story. I would defiantly love to incorporate this game into my class, however, the game can take a turn as individuals can design their characters and even add fake blood to there character. They can also make it so the character attacks another character which would be linked to violence which may pose a problem with parents if students go home and discuss this part. Overall, there are negatives and positives to using this as it gets the students to start to develop their cognitive thinking.
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