Show students the “What Facebook Knows About You” video to help them better understand their digital fingerprint.
Tell students to experiment and break things so they maximize their learning opportunities and exposure to different aspects of Scratch to gain experience and build competency.
Encourage students to work on side projects to make sure they are getting enough programming practice and to make them more marketable.
Arrange your curriculum so that your students are doing hands-on work as fast as possible to ensure you retain as many students as possible and keep them engaged.
Give research students an initial set of papers to read to help them generate their own potential research questions.
Allow students to choose from a list of possible projects, and have them pursue multiple research questions. This increases the chances that at least one project/question will emerge as feasible.
Don’t shortchange your students; believe they can do investigative problem solving and assign open-ended projects.
Tie the importance of searching and sorting to internet search engines, then encourage students to create search mechanisms for data they want to analyze.
Encourage students to engage critically with the source and justification of knowledge by modeling an inquisitive nature.