MobileMakersEdu®
Mobile App Coding
Throughout this mobile app coding course, students build working apps for Apple’s mobile devices using the language and tools of professionals – Swift and Xcode. Students experience an authentic workplace environment applying the methodologies and practices of real-world developers, and acquire skills around teamwork, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication. The apps students build grow in complexity throughout the year, culminating in an app showcase, where students demonstrate an app they built of their own design.
MobileMakersStudio® is a second-year course where students advance their Swift programming skills, and apply design-forward skills to investigate a client need and develop a mobile app solution. Using client management and dev team methods from the industry, students grow their interpersonal and management skills. Students leave the class 'internship ready', having worked with clients to create and build an app from ideation to working app.
Coding Empowers Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs rely on a range of skills - from finance, operations, sales, and marketing to technologies. So much of our world today involves technology and apps, and a working knowledge (and demystification) of coding and hands-on experience in building apps is important. MobileMakersEdu is a great entry point for learning to code, or a complement to a deeper focus around computer science.
Learning to code has the effect of teaching someone how to think differently -- how to break down problems into small, separate parts to understand impact and then drive solutions.
Experiential Learning
Connected Learners
Competency Based
Coursework and Learning Resources
Throughout this full year or single semester course, students build mobile apps for Apple’s mobile devices using the language and tools of professionals – Swift and Xcode. Courses are geared towards grades 8-11 and students are not required to have prior coding experience.
- Comprehensive digital library of materials including lesson plans, assessment frameworks and rubrics
Full-year course includes materials to teach the class as AP-CS-P
Teacher Professional Development & Support
Teachers receive comprehensive training and ongoing support. Professional development kicks off in summer with pre-work and a multi-day
- Best practices in computer science, and pedagogy for successful iOS development courses
- Classroom and instructional strategies to support differentiation
- Collaboration techniques, including remote teams
- Teacher recognition program *Training is aligned to ISTE Standards for CS Educators and ISTE standards for Educators
School Implementation & Consultation
Uncharted Learning collaborates with schools to implement this technology building, workplace-like experience within their districts. This includes onboarding and set up meetings to discuss how to identify the right teachers, how to convert a classroom into a dev shop environment with Apple hardware, and how to promote the program in the community.
Course Requirements
Any Apple computer or laptop that can support the most recent iOS. Xcode and
Coursework and Learning Resources
For students who have completed the full year MobileMakersEdu course, MobileMakersStudios provides an experience to advance their Swift programming skills and iOS design skills. Using client management and development team methods from industry they investigate a client need to develop a mobile app solution. Geared towards grades 10-12 students leave the course internship ready.
- Comprehensive digital library of materials including lesson plans, video, assessments frameworks and rubrics.
Teacher Professional Development & Support
Teachers receive comprehensive training and ongoing support. During the summer training, educators learn how to run and manage client relationships to support a development team, same as their students will experience in the course. Teachers continue to grow and stay current with iOS updates and releases during the school year through virtual meetups, collaborations in Slack. and return every year to level up their skills and app mastery at the annual MobileMakersEdu Summit.
- How to connect and grow their peer and iOS industry relationships
- Best practices is computer science, and pedagogy for successful iOS development courses
- Classroom and instructional strategies to support differentiation
- Collaboration techniques, including remote teams
- Teacher recognition program *Training is aligned to ISTE Standards for CS Educators and ISTE standards for Educators
School Implementation & Consultation
Uncharted Learning collaborates with schools to implement this workplace-like experience within their districts. This includes onboarding and set up meetings to discuss how to identify industry partners in your area for collaboration and connection to internship opportunities.
We skill-up teachers and level-up support
We train teachers of any discipline to teach mobile coding courses at their schools. MobileMakersEdu offers comprehensive, professional development as part of program membership. Teachers are trained in the Swift programming language, the curriculum for a year-long/or semester-long course(s), and are provided toolkits for creating authentic workplace environments at school.
Our community offers a robust support system to both educators and students. From professional iOS developer mentors to a vast collection of resources, we offer educators what they need to run a successful and engaging program.
"MobileMakers curriculum and pedagogy allowed a novice like me to begin the journey of learning to teach computer science."
~ Mark Burpee, Humanities and Computer Science Teacher, American School in Japan
Gabby E.,“I learned to love making mobile apps. I knew that iOS programming could be my avenue for affecting the world.”
MobileMakersEdu Bootcamp Student
Gaby, a MobileMakersEdu bootcamp student was invited to WWDC on scholarship - one of 350 out of the 6000+ who submitted. "Apple’s WWDC 17 was one of the best experiences of my life. I made new app-developing friends from the US, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, India, Vietnam, Ireland, and all over the world. So many opportunities opened up for me."
“That was easily the coolest thing I’ve ever done.”
Zach, a MobileMakersEdu student is solving a problem shared by many high school seniors. He was one of 100 students who were invited to Washington D.C. to demo their work after winning the 2016 Congressional App Challenge. "Choosing a college is a stressful part of high school, My app is here to take some of the burden off of students." It's available at CongressionalAppChallenge.us.
Prospect High School, Mount Prospect, IL
Brandon Egnarski,“Learning to code has expanded by ability to learn and teach as well – it's exciting.”
MobileMakersEdu Teacher, Waukesha West High School, WI
