We’ve been refining StudioWeb over the last 6yrs, working with many schools and teachers. In fact, StudioWeb has been developed hand-in-hand with teachers, as tens of thousands of students have used it to learn to code.
… That’s a big reason why it is so effective.
You can teach the following popular coding languages with StudioWeb:
1. Fun engaging lessons for students.
2. Practically no PD required for teachers who’ve never coded before.
3. Practically no prep – you can get up and running with as little as 30 minutes.
4. Powerful auto generated grades by course, chapter and even down to the lesson.
5. Over 50 projects to assign students and classroom activities.
6. Personal support: if you have any questions, you will be able to speak to me personally throughout the year.
Teachers and students love StudioWeb and so we have a 100% renewal rate. If you want to teach code, it can’t get any easier.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly: stefan (at) Studioweb.com
When it comes to teaching web design and development, the common hurdle we have seen, is that many middle school and high school teachers are beginners themselves. We have solved this problem with StudioWeb.
StudioWeb is loved by teachers and students, because it makes teaching and learning code amazingly easy. It comes with everything a teacher could want:
assignments and classrooms activities
auto grading by course, chapters and lessons.
video based interactive quizzing and code challenges
easy to use grading rubric for the projects
open ended lesson plans
video walk-throughs of the app
… And much more.
Final comments for teachers:
You could be up and running in about 1hr! No prior coding experience required. We’ve been working with schools for 5 years to get StudioWeb to where it is today. StudioWeb is proven.
Schools are looking for ways to introduce coding into the classroom, and they have been told that dragging blocks on a screen is coding.
The most popular of these visual ‘code’ teaching tools, is an app called Scratch. The problem is, Scratch is not coding.
Here is a sample of some actual code – a little JavaScript:
function myFunction(p1, p2) {
return p1 * p2;
}
var person = {
firstName:"John",
lastName:"Doe",
age:50,
eyeColor:"blue"
};
Or how about some CSS3 code:
div {
width: 300px;
border: 25px solid green;
padding: 25px;
margin: 25px;
}
Now compare that above code snippets to the Scratch ‘code’ block in the top right.
Now as an educator, I ask myself if students will see the relationship between the Scratch block, with actual code? I personally don’t see it.
Scratch cat
A place for Scratch in a Code Curriculum
You could argue that Scratch is very simple programming, since you are controlling the character on screen with a series of commands. But given that nobody uses Scratch to do anything in the real world, why not teach students true programming and coding languages? With the right courses, lessons and supporting software, you can!
That said, Scratch can be used for elementary students in the 4-5th grade or younger, perhaps to introduce some basic coding concepts to students. But, I feel this will have a limited impact. Why?
Writing Real Code helps Internalize Concepts
I have been teaching code since 2003, and one thing that experience has taught me, is that the writing of actual code has a powerful impact in terms of understanding and internalizing coding concepts. It’s important to have students break out the code editor (a tool that coders use) and write code, break code and build actual projects.
… When students see their code come to life in real things, you will see their engagement skyrocket.
