Return10 Steps to Hosting an App Design & Prototype Camp
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Session description
Purpose & objective
Participants will learn how a large urban school district followed 10 steps to organize and deliver a virtual summer coding camp focused on app design and prototyping to build student interest in coding. We will share our story of how we explored and built app prototypes to solve community problems in the midst of distance learning and community protests and have refined our camp and app prototype showcase over three years. In addition, strategies for building connections with community businesses and computer science experts will be shared.
Outline
. Word Cloud Poll through Poll Everywhere or Mentimeter - What are some challenges in the communities where you live that you think an app could help with? - 3 minutes
II. Creating A Prototype Step-by-Step - App Design Journal - 5 minutes (Participants create sketches of app screens with app of choice and share on social media)
A.UI vs UX
B. Accessibility
III. App Icons - Design, Color, and Purpose - 5 minutes (Participants create sketch of app icon and share on social media)
IV. App Pitch - How To Stand Out - 2 minutes (Participants submit app slogan to Poll Everywhere)
V. Recruiting Showcase Judges - Computer Science Experts, App Develops, and Community Connections - 5 minutes
VI. Showcase Event - Key Takeaways - 5 minutes
VII. Questions - 5 minutes
* Student examples shared throughout
*Participants can create the start of a prototype during session and share out screenshots or short video on social media.
Supporting research
Apple Everyone Can Code Curriculum
Apple K-12 Teaching Code - https://www.apple.com/education/k12/teaching-code/
App Design Journal - https://education-static.apple.com/coding-club-kit/appjournal.key
Code.org Why Computer Science - https://code.org/promote
Howard, N. and Howard, K., ISTE, 2020. Coding +Math: Strengthen K-5 Math Skills With Computer Science.
Randles, ISTE, 2018. 4 ways to make CS for all a reality - https://www.iste.org/explore/Computer-Science/4-ways-to-make-CS-for-all-a-reality
Silva, ISTE, 2019. Make Hour of Code a lifelong passion with these free resources - https://www.iste.org/explore/computer-science/make-hour-code-lifelong-passion-these-free-resources
Swift Coding Club - https://www.apple.com/education/docs/swift-club-playgrounds.pdf
Valenzuela, ISTE, 2019. Lessons to keep Hour of Code going year-round - https://www.iste.org/explore/computer-science/lessons-keep-hour-code-going-year-round
Valenzuela, ISTE, 2019. Profile of a technologically literate graduate - https://www.iste.org/explore/Computer-Science/Profile-of-a-technologically-literate-graduate
Valenzuela, ISTE, 2020. Rev Up Robotics: Real-World Computational Thinking in the K-8 Classroom
Williams, ISTE, 201. No Fear Coding: Computational Thinking Across the K-5 Curriculum
Session specifications
Tablet: iOS
Optional - Sketching app of choice - Sketches School, Keynote
All software and apps will be listed on this blog site - http://playlearnteach.blogspot.com/
Innovative Designer
- Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
- Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
- Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.