[Squeakland] Re: Squeaking Homeschoolers?

Gary Frederick gary.frederick at jsoft.com
Mon Mar 22 08:55:07 PST 2004


I'm looking over some of the recent messages and came across this one.

I'll be showing homeschoolers Squeak and seeing where they take it over 
the next little bit. We are working on software that helps you learn to 
program. I'm thinking of showing one of our classes Squeak today and 
another Wednesday. The classes are very small (5-6 kids) and the average 
age is 12. One is all homeschoolers and another is not.

> The first aims for the Squeak etoys were at what we called "lapware" 
> (a parent with a child on their lap). And we have been wanting to do 
> a major push for homeschoolers for quite a few years.

I remember our daughter setting on my lap drawing flowers and other 
shapes with LOGO. Several years later we were looking at Toontalk and 
remember the fantastic feeling I got as she was 'aha'ing the messaging 
between processes. She played with some of the etoys yeserday and I look 
forward to seeing what she came up with. (She is way bigger than lap 
size now :-)

Gary



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