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We are here to teach empathy through a hands-on approach that is both global and collaborative. Students meet in an after-school club setting, sharing projects in a global forum. These academically based projects teach content to students from other countries. Our students create games/storyboards using Scratch and/or robotic activities using one of the Wonder Robots. In addition to creating individual projects, our students critique and provide feedback as peer teachers, evaluating coding projects from their global counterparts. Alongside our global collaborators via Skype, Empatico, and/or Google Hangout, students problem solve solutions to take the coding projects to a higher level. To especially encourage the girls, most meetings allow girls and boys to meet separately. The Code.org modules allow the students to move at their own pace, allowing for differentiation. Computer science students and professors from the nearby university offer their expertise and encouragement at the weekly meetings. One of our parents who designs coding games also works with our students. A STEM agency in our county offers support, encouragement and classes. With this approach, we are not only implementing our core academic standards, but we are implementing standard 5.TT.1 the use of technology tools and skills to reinforce and extend classroom concepts and activities. In addition, we foster global awareness and empathy when we work with our global counterparts. All of us work together, making a truly collaborative experience on the local level as well as in the global arena for our students, future computer scientists of the world!
