Use of ICT in Learning and Teaching

Chapter 22: Teaching Coding, Technology & Computers using Hello Ruby - Part 2 Date/Time: Friday 26th July 2024 2:45 am & Saturday 27th July 2024 3:33 pm  This is yet another interesting blog post about an interesting online training session about “Teaching Coding, Technology and Computers using Hello Ruby”. The post will focus on the first training session on Hello Ruby. As shared earlier the ideas are inspired by the Hello Ruby books and website.This is also a continuation of the  previous blog post. I am sure after reading the two posts more participants would want to join the online sessions and have a great learning experience.  The next task in the session was discussing loops. This is also a very difficult and tricky concept to explain to students in Computer Studies. Since I have taught Computer Studies to students for a long time, I know how challenging it is to teach technical concepts. This begins with a thorough understanding of  the term “algorithms”. In the previou

Chapter 21: Teaching Coding, Technology & Computers using Hello Ruby - Part 1 Date/Time: 25th July 2024 Thursday - 4:25 am & Friday 26th July 2024 - 2:27 am This is yet another interesting post about a great training session online with teachers and an early year school head. It's been a while since I did training sessions online. I was skimming through the Hello Ruby book on “Adventures in Coding” and I came across a wonderful idea of creating an online session for teachers, school heads and coordinators specifically teaching in schools in Pakistan. Hello Ruby is written by Linda Luikus who is a Finland based children's author and illustrator. She has written three books on coding , technology and computers. I skimmed through the Hello Ruby website and thought of creating an interesting , fun learning training session for teachers. This post will focus on ideas shared on the Hello Ruby website and the books. The post will reflect on the content in the training session