Empower Students with Authentic Coding Activities
As we teach students programming skills, the goal is to make learning fun and enriching. Let’s look at some creative ways that teachers can…
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A Beginner’s Guide to the Value of Computational Thinking
What Is Computational Thinking? Computational thinking is the skill of solving problems by breaking them into smaller, easy-to-handle parts. It’s like splitting a big…
Easy Game Development Techniques that Empower Kids
Young students enthusiastically learn game development techniques through coding. But they need to have an age-appropriate learning platform designed for this purpose. This is…
Game Design for Kids: Scratch Programming with Easy Teacher Resources
Can beginners learn basic coding and design games for their friends? Yes! TechnoKids has a cool program called TechnoRace to teach game design for…
How to: Upload a Sprite for Scratch
Do your students want to make a truly one-of-a-kind Scratch project? Or are they having trouble finding just the right main character or object…
How to Import a Sound into Scratch
To personalize a game or story, you can import a sound into Scratch. It is true that Scratch, has more than 350 sounds. That…
Get to Know the Three Phases of Game Development
Consider phases of game development when planning a programming curriculum unit. This framework provides a learning experience that simulates the real-world. For this reason,…
Game Development: How to Script Obstacles
Games should be fun and just the right level of challenge. They shouldn’t be too easy, so that the player finishes quickly and has…
How To Add Comments To Scratch Coding Projects
Teachers, are you assessing your students’ Scratch coding projects? How do you know that they understand the code that they have written? Here’s a…