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Lesson Two: Ashlee Foureyes 29 the wheel about software development and coding. In the Eastern Doorway quadrant (the right- hand side), students will fill out the K or the "Know". Instruct students to fill in anything they might know about software development and/or coding. Next, in the Southern Doorway quadrant (the bottom), students will fill in the W or the "Want to learn?". Students will write in information they want to learn about software development and/or coding. After watching Ashlee Foureye's interview with Fireside Chats, or reading her story in the text- book or online, students will fill in the last two quadrants - Learned and Questions. ACQUIRE: ASHLEE FOUREYES' FIRESIDE CHAT http://firesidechats.ca/video/ashlee-foureyes Ashlee Foureyes is an Indigenous woman from Maskwacis in the Wetaskiwin area in Alberta. Ashlee is a software development engineer for Amazon. Ashlee grew up in a small rural com- munity with limited access to technology. Ashlee started her education journey with the idea that she would become an accountant since she had a love for mathematics. However, Ashlee took a coding elective class once and found her passion. Since then she turned her education journey onto computer sciences and started her career journey as a software development engineer. Start the video of Ashlee Foureyes' interview with Fireside Chats. In the interview, Ashlee dis- cusses her career and education journey as a software engineer at Amazon. Ashlee has been on an exciting career journey and found her passion by accident. Instruct students to keep their KWLQ Medicine Wheel graphic organizers in front of them. As they watch Ashlee Foureyes video, encourage students to fill out the Learned section of their sheets. In the Learned section, students will write new information they did not know about software engineering, coding, or even about the education and career journey to do such things. In the Questions section, students should write at least 5 questions they still have about software engineering and/or coding. To debrief the video, ask the class the following questions: 1.What is some advice Ashlee has for young people looking into post-secondary? 2.Why is adaptability important? 3.How has the Covid-19 pandemic impacted the way we use technology and computers? Students will apply the foundational learning from the KWLQ activity, and Ashlee's interview with fireside chats to try some coding of their own! APPLY: EARSKETCH CODING We strongly suggest you familiarize yourself with EarSketch before you begin this lesson. In this activity, students will learn the basics of coding with EarSketch and build foundational coding information. Students will compose a short song through code using either the program- ming language Python or Javascript. EarSketch is a free web-based coding platform that teaches students core topics of coding, computer science, music, and music technology. There are many lessons that the website oers. To start, go to the EarSketch website - https://www.teachers.earsketch.org/ and ensure you click "Hour of Coding" under the "TEACH" tab. On this tab, it'll take students through how to use EarSketch. Students will create their own song by coding. The teacher, or the student, will pick the program- ming language that they will use. The options are Python or Javascript. Have each student start at the same time; so all students get the same amount of time. Instruct students to try to be cre- ative and use their time wisely. Hand out the Coding Song Rubric to each student so they know how they will be assessed.