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!
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Community Review for codeSpark Academy
Mrs. T.
Forest Glen International Elementary School
Indianapolis IN, US
My Take
I love the learning, but there could be more. When they learn a lot, they want to learn more!
How I Use It
I used this product to help my students learn to code. I plan on getting them a more advanced coding app now that they've gotten so good at it! It was perfect in this category.
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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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Kim K.
Elementary Technology Teacher
Linden, NJ
April 23, 2019
Code Addiction
I like this app for practicing problem solving. When the students complete puzzles, I challenge them to persist and keep trying until they get all 3 stars. They want to do it because they want to gather as many coins as they can.
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