This semester flew by so quickly, I simply cannot believe that were already writing a semester overview! We started out the year learning how to wipe hard drives and learn how to program the computers to have Ubuntu on them so the people receiving them will have access to programs similar to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and during this process we learned how to switch hard drives of computers. After this project we moved on to reviewing Scratch a website used to code most of us learned last year, except this year we had to learn how to teach it! Once we reviewed our skills it was time to teach the fourth graders of CSG! At some points it was frustrating for me because when they would ask me questions about how to get their sprite, or character to do certain tasks I had the proclivity to just do it for them. I would have to remind myself that me doing for them wouldn’t teach them anything, this pushed me to use my words to try and help them get to their goal without doing it for them. Seeing what these kids came up with was a really fulfilling moment because it seemed as though all our hard work of trying to explain coding in the simplest definitions we could think of paid off and I hope the fourth graders enjoyed it as much as I did! I can’t believe how much this class has accomplished in such a short amount of time, it’s truly been an amazing experience, and I can’t wait to see what we do next semester.
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