Kevin’s Meandering Mind: Tinkering with Tynker for Hour of Code

Kevin’s Meandering Mind

12/05/13

I am going to use Tynker with my sixth grade students as part of the Hour of Code next week, just to see how they do and if any of my sixth graders get the coding bug (good bug — interest). I’ve been playing around with the site a bit, and I like it builds off the Logos Programming tool and Tynker might be a way into Scratch later on. The lesson plans built into Tynker seem have an easy entry point, too.

Here is a screenshot from a level I was playing, pretending to be a student.

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