December 11, 2019
Students CRACK the CODE
JILL DENNING GACKLE
It might seem like fun and games. But it’s fun and games disguised as learning.
That’s what happened in Max today (Thursday), thanks to teachers like Mickenzie Watts.
Dec. 12 is a culmination of the school’s efforts to make technology a bigger priority in the school, as they participated in Gov. Doug Burgum’s initiative to have an hour of coding that day.
“We’ve brought in a lot more focus on computers,” Watts said. The Alberta, Canada native, joined the district a year ago after teaching in Parshall for a year. She’s been part of the effort to get I-Pads into the hands of all elementary students and Chrome books into the high school students’ hands.
Students are learning a lot about digital technology including web site design, coding and will be using a game program called Minecraft to make digital learning even more creative and fun.
Coding is the process of using a programming language to get a computer to behave how you want it to. Every line of code tells the computer to do something.
That’s what happened in Max today (Thursday), thanks to teachers like Mickenzie Watts.
Dec. 12 is a culmination of the school’s efforts to make technology a bigger priority in the school, as they participated in Gov. Doug Burgum’s initiative to have an hour of coding that day.
“We’ve brought in a lot more focus on computers,” Watts said. The Alberta, Canada native, joined the district a year ago after teaching in Parshall for a year. She’s been part of the effort to get I-Pads into the hands of all elementary students and Chrome books into the high school students’ hands.
Students are learning a lot about digital technology including web site design, coding and will be using a game program called Minecraft to make digital learning even more creative and fun.
Coding is the process of using a programming language to get a computer to behave how you want it to. Every line of code tells the computer to do something.
