Explorations with Kojo, Level 1

This series of books is meant to help children explore various topics in computer programming, math, and art – using the Kojo Learning Environment (www.kojo.in).

At a very high level, the goal of these books is to help children gain essential 21st century skills through sustained practice and constant feedback with creative activities. The way this works in Kojo is that children play, create, and learn. They play with computer programs (by writing code), they create drawings, animations, games, music, and circuits, and in the process they learn 21st century skills and more. The primary 21st century skills that we are talking about here are – computation, critical thinking (defined here as careful goal­directed thinking), creative thinking, collaboration, and communication.

An even deeper goal of these books is to take children on a journey of learning with understanding – in the domain of programming, math, and art – to begin with, but with ideas that apply across subjects.

The Level-1 book focuses on Turtle Graphics and structured programming.