President Obama asks America to learn computer science
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Age-appropriate entry points to coding concepts and computational thinking.
- →Try the activity together.
- →What would YOU want to program?
Co-viewing with discussion significantly improves learning outcomes from video (Strouse et al., 2013; Mendelsohn et al., 2010).
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