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Coding Courses that Teach Real Code!

November 17, 2017
Posted in Courses, Curriculum

Writing snippets of JavaScript to move a character 2 steps to the left, doesn’t teach kids anything about programming … at best, it’s a cheap replacement for an xbox controller. … One teacher called me up recently, telling me how after the initial excitement student’s had moving characters around with code snippets, students fell into…

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Learning to Teach a Python Course

September 7, 2017

One of the first questions teachers ask us: ” … how long will the PD be, in terms of learning how to teach a code class?” Whether you are teaching Python, JavaScript or just a basic web design class, with the StudioWeb app and curriculum, the real truth of the matter is, it take practically…

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Middle School Web Design Courses that Teach Actual Code!

August 21, 2017

A teacher called yesterday looking for a web design course that teaches real web design coding skills. Like other teachers I’ve personally spoken to, she understood that dragging around blocks on screen, where the app writes the code for the student, is not nearly as effective as the student actually writing the code! … Teachers…

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Starting your Web Design Class

August 10, 2017

Getting your web design class up and running is easy with StudioWeb. The steps are: We set up your StudioWeb classroom(s), where each student gets their own user ID. Teachers give students their IDs, and they log in and start with the HTML course. As your students watch the videos and answer quiz questions, the…

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What Yale’s Socially Assistive Robots and StudioWeb have in Common

August 2, 2017

I was reading an article on Yale University’s research with socially assistive robotics, that help to teach kids. The main points I got out of the article: Robots learn and adapt to individual student need. Students are motivated when the learning process is turned into a game. A little competition is very motivating for many students….

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Complete Web Design Curriculum for 2018

July 26, 2017
Posted in Courses, Curriculum, News

StudioWeb first entered the classroom nearly 7 years ago! In that time, we’ve listened to teachers and students, as we continued to refine both the StudioWeb software, and course curriculum. Our current coding foundation courses: Beginners HTML Beginners CSS Beginners JavaScript Beginners Python Beginners PHP StudioWeb might be the most effective teaching tool today for…

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