Friday, April 28, 2017
Variables Gallery Walk
This semester I started to teach a new programming language, Swift. Students seem to be able to create a basic app at the beginning of the semester, but I was worried that they didn't truly understand the fundamentals of variable creation. To help students communicate and talk about variables, I had them break up into small groups and create a poster for their variable type (integers, doubles, boolean, String, how to check if two variables are equal, etc). Each poster contained a description of the variable type and what this would look like with code. The student then hung up their posters and the class participated in a gallery walk. Many of my students decided to take pictures of these posters to keep as notes to use as a reference when they completed their next programming assignment.
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