{"id":1986,"date":"2020-06-01T00:23:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2020-06-01T00:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T07:23:21","slug":"kids-can-code-using-lightbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/01\/kids-can-code-using-lightbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids can Code using Lightbot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Original post by By <a href=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/author\/katherine-costales\/\">Kat<\/a> on February 9, 2019<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in \u201chour of code\u201d activities, helping them become active, rather than passive users of technology. The skills that they learn might one-day help secure a job in our increasingly tech-driven world. Having a basic understanding of programming concepts improves problem-solving and thinking skills which are both transferable and empowering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lightbot is a kid friendly educational video game designed to learn software programming concepts and coding logic! It is an application that we just began to use in my school, and I wanted to learn more about it. Do you see the value of teaching programming in school? Watch my video and let me know what you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kids can Code using Lightbot\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fz6ahWE_XR8?start=260&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original post by By Kat on February 9, 2019 Coding is a big deal right now. Worldwide, 36 million kids have taken part in \u201chour&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/06\/01\/kids-can-code-using-lightbot\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kids can Code using Lightbot<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32739,"featured_media":1988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileeducation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}