Bert, It is possible for very young students to use Etoys and to learn quite a lot. I have posted projects and lesson plans which I have used with K and 1st graders. Lynne May, let me know if I can help beyond this.
The projects are part of the set of CS4K5 materials I am writing and are posted at EtoysIllinois.org. All of the projects assume 40 minutes of instruction once a week and are paced so that the projects will be finished by the end of an academic year. Very young students can't be hurried; that is the key to making sure they enjoy what they are learning. It is very easy to plan too large a project and then to push them forward too fast.
The example projects they look pretty simple to adult eyes but are solid accomplishments for children five or six years old. Kathleen
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:00:01 -0800 From: Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de Subject: [squeakland] Etoys on Sugar in the Classroom To: "squeakland.org mailing list" squeakland@squeakland.org
http://blog.melchua.com/2010/02/06/lynne-mays-soas-deployment/ * Lynne May is continuing to work with school administration on getting (and keeping!) our all-clear-to-proceed status, and starting to think about how to inform parents. She’s also spending more time getting to know various Activities, as shehas played with Sugar multiple times before, but never in the “how will I use this in my classroom right now?” sense. Last night’s adventure was Etoys, which was ultimately deemed too difficult to work with first-graders on within the scope of our deployment. We would loveto be proven wrong about this, by the way – the concern is mostly that we’d spend so much time getting through the basics of Etoys that this is all we’d be able to do for the last 4 months of the school year.
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Thanks Kathleen! I'm cc'ing both Mel and Lynne May to see your reply (I think both might not be subscribed to Squeakland).
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On 09.02.2010, at 05:38, kharness@illinois.edu wrote:
Bert, It is possible for very young students to use Etoys and to learn quite a lot. I have posted projects and lesson plans which I have used with K and 1st graders. Lynne May, let me know if I can help beyond this.
The projects are part of the set of CS4K5 materials I am writing and are posted at EtoysIllinois.org. All of the projects assume 40 minutes of instruction once a week and are paced so that the projects will be finished by the end of an academic year. Very young students can't be hurried; that is the key to making sure they enjoy what they are learning. It is very easy to plan too large a project and then to push them forward too fast.
The example projects they look pretty simple to adult eyes but are solid accomplishments for children five or six years old. Kathleen
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 11:00:01 -0800 From: Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de Subject: [squeakland] Etoys on Sugar in the Classroom To: "squeakland.org mailing list" squeakland@squeakland.org
http://blog.melchua.com/2010/02/06/lynne-mays-soas-deployment/
- Lynne May is continuing to work with school administration on getting (and keeping!) our all-clear-to-proceed status, and starting to think about how to inform parents. She’s also spending more time getting to know various Activities, as shehas played with Sugar multiple times before, but never in the “how will I use this in my classroom right now?” sense. Last night’s adventure was Etoys, which was ultimately deemed too difficult to work with first-graders on within the scope of our deployment. We would loveto be proven wrong about this, by the way – the concern is mostly that we’d spend so much time getting through the basics of Etoys that this is all we’d be able to do for the last 4 months of the school year.
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