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wraggster
November 11th, 2020, 20:15
The upcoming "Hack the Classroom: STEM Edition (https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2020/10/help-your-students-grow-future-ready-skills-with-hack-the-classroom-stem-edition/)," Microsoft explains, "is a [3-day] free virtual event series designed for K-12 educators, parents, and guardians. The sessions will feature resources and tutorials to help educators support students in learning future-ready skills. These lessons can be easily incorporated into classroom curriculum while preparing for this year's Hour of Code (https://hourofcode.com/us) event -- a global effort to teach and demystify coding, during Computer Science Education Week, December 7-13."

Microsoft has boasted that the Hour of Code enabled it to reach tens of millions of schoolchildren (https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/11/18/2123214/microsoft-debuts-minecraft-themed-coding-tutorial) each year with its drag-and-drop Minecraft-themed tutorials. New for middle and high schoolers this year is the Minecraft Python Hour of Code, which presumably taps into the just-released Python Content for Minecraft: Education Edition (https://educationblog.microsoft.com/en-us/2020/10/new-ways-to-code-introducing-python-content-for-minecraft-education-edition/) (sample Python 101 Lesson (https://education.minecraft.net/lessons/python-101-lesson-1)). The Hour of Code is run by Microsoft-funded Code.org (https://code.org/about/donors), whose Board of Directors (https://code.org/about/leadership) include Microsoft President Brad Smith.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/11/09/2116256/microsoft-make-11-year-olds-future-ready-with-minecraft-python-hour-of-code