The coding workshop demonstrated a variety of ways to achieve professional development. Scratch, a program focused on learners immersed with the introduction to coding, was explored in the workshop. While I did not find the benefit to this program at the beginning aside from mathematical classes, there was some emergence in the program I found that can be fruitful as we went along with the workshop. In exploring the Scratch program, from what we learned and to the extent interacted with it, revealed itself to be a useful program and resource for the interpretative way of looking at coding (as text) in humanities classrooms across the spectrum. It would be a fun way to include tech into classrooms of the arts, by way of sifting through information, which is my overall learning curve from the workshop. In and of itself, and unavoidable for me to look at in any other perspective but this one, Scratch is the text that students look through to create meaning of a language deeper than what is presented. While this resource may not be at the forefront of an English, or humanities, classroom, for that matter, there can still be the implicit lessons one needs to extract from using the program itself. For example, decoding literature or modern language could be special in an English classroom. However, for this to be the case, students would have to be given a pre-coding process design to play with and navigate through in order to find language they have to learn. I do think that can be applied to a fun way to incorporate vocabulary into the daily regime of defining words. Particularly this would break up the yawning of the dictionary, a much more traditional way of figuring out the meaning of language. Moreover, I was increasingly interested with how I could incorporate BLM social justice topics into my classroom as I navigated through the website. I also think that learning more a the interactive stories, animation, and other areas of the humanities features on slack could be beneficial to me as an educator in the future. Ultimately, this is a professional development workshop that not only provides variety, but it shows how the mundane of classroom routine can be turned into something more fitting to the general shift of social in technology.
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