{"id":22,"date":"2023-09-06T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2023-09-07T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T07:25:53","slug":"sphero","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/unplugged-coding\/sphero\/","title":{"rendered":"Sphero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sphero.com\/blogs\/news\/unplugged-coding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ0kE-H4qWSu4XRsoKtphzpD4wZ5wLQzkVjB7YPSJ0s&amp;s\" width=\"406\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sphero.com\/blogs\/news\/unplugged-coding\">Sphero<\/a><\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; width: 192px; height: 88px;\" border=\"0\"\ncellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\"><\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\" width:=\"\" 300px=\"\">Activity\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\" width:=\"\" 300px=\"\">Yes\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Worksheet \n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">App\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Unplugged coding is teaching coding concepts without using devices. It is learning how to code without writing lines of code. When coding unplugged, students use their knowledge to work on computational challenges that will help them understand the concepts they\u2019ll use in coding projects. Jennifer Jensen, Innovation Lab Specialist at Clear Sky Elementary, puts it this way:<br \/>\n\u201cI believe there are two components to unplugged coding. The first is the act of using offline activities and games, some of which involve markers, paper, or manipulatives, as a way to teach programming concepts in an engaging and \u2018unplugged\u2019 way. The other component to unplugged coding focuses on the computational skills of:<br \/>\n\u2022 Decomposition<br \/>\n\u2022 Pattern matching<br \/>\n\u2022 Abstraction<br \/>\n\u2022 Algorithms (or automation)<br \/>\nThese activities and games focus more on these four pillars of computational thinking and less on programming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sphero Activity Yes Worksheet App Unplugged coding is teaching coding concepts without using devices. It is learning how to code without writing lines of code. When coding unplugged, students use their knowledge to work on computational challenges that will help them understand the concepts they\u2019ll use in coding projects. Jennifer Jensen, Innovation Lab Specialist at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/25"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesa.org.za\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}