Students Love the Foos!
Submitted 5 years ago
Community Review for codeSpark Academy
Sophia G.
Orchard Place Elementary School
Des Plaines IL, US
My Take
I love this App! Students learn the fundamentals of coding while I get to see them persevere. They learn the art of growth mindset, I see them sharing and teaching each other to get to the next level. I see them want to do better when they struggle and will try their absolute best to get there.
How I Use It
My students love the Foos! This is a great way to introduce and then differentiate each students pace to learn how to code. Each lesson and level is developed to teach and build upon the skills they have learned in the previous lessons. The characters are fun and vibrant. Students love playing and learning!
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Mrs. T.
Forest Glen International Elementary School
Indianapolis, IN
May 26, 2020
codeSpark Academy is great for helping my students learn to code! But it displays the students' info publicly, so I had to create one account for my whole class. And it doesn't provide any further or more advanced learning. But my 2nd graders loved it!
I love the learning, but there could be more. When they learn a lot, they want to learn more!
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Mrs. N.
Propel Charter School - McKeesport (District)
Pittsburgh, PA
November 4, 2019
Love the lock/unlock app ability and individual student progress tracking.
I like the puzzles and coding. I wanted to use the digital storytelling portion more but it is not intuitive. One student had trees eating animals and people eating people.
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Nicole G.
Teacher
Macarthur K 8 Academy
Lathrup Village, MI
May 15, 2019
Fun, gamified learning of coding and computational thinking!
I have used this project with my kids and my students. I think it is a great tool to teach coding. One caveat: if you are using Codespark on Chromebooks or older desktops, it can take a while to load.
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