• The Integration of Arts into Coding

    Students around the district have been highlighting their artistic skills when learning to code a story in the iPad coding app, Scratch Jr.  They are also gaining competency in  computational thinking skills and discovering more about the importance of procedural language. The Scratch Jr. app has ready-made background templates and characters that the students can […]

  • NexGen Codetalkers

    During World War II, First Nations soldiers from Canada who spoke Cree were recruited as top secret “code talkers”. Because soldiers from other countries did not know of the Cree language, they were unable to recognize and decipher the “coded” messages written or spoken in Cree. The code talkers were able to create “unbreakable” coded […]