Coding Before the Keyboard: Building Early Computational Thinking Skills

Coding Before the Keyboard: Building Early Computational Thinking Skills

Students don't need to read, type, or understand programming languages to begin thinking like coders.

In this interactive webinar, we'll explore how young learners can begin developing computational thinking through movement, sequencing, prediction, problem-solving, and play. You'll see how simple, age-appropriate coding experiences can help students learn to give instructions, predict what will happen, test their ideas, spot when something doesn't work, and try again.

Through classroom-ready examples using PIO and CodeVenture, we'll look at how visual and hands-on coding experiences can make abstract ideas concrete for early learners—without putting a keyboard or lines of code in front of them.

We'll also explore a simple learning cycle educators can use with young students:

SEQUENCE → PREDICT → TEST → FIX