[Squeakland] Re: Squeaking Homeschoolers?

[Kim Rose]

Hi, Gary -
We'll be interested to learn more about your daughter's experiences 
and thoughts!
thanks,
Kim


t 8:55 AM -0600 3/22/04, Gary Frederick wrote:
>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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