A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
Karl
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, karl ramberg karlramberg@gmail.com wrote:
A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
Nice implementation of what I thought everyone has routinely done when first teaching kids Logo. Am I missing something?
-walter
Karl
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On 14.04.2012, at 14:00, Walter Bender wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, karl ramberg karlramberg@gmail.com wrote:
A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
Nice implementation of what I thought everyone has routinely done when first teaching kids Logo. Am I missing something?
-walter
Seems very few are doing it anymore, nowadays.
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
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On 14.04.2012, at 14:00, Walter Bender wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, karl ramberg karlramberg@gmail.com wrote:
A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
Nice implementation of what I thought everyone has routinely done when first teaching kids Logo. Am I missing something?
-walter
Seems very few are doing it anymore, nowadays.
It being teaching kids to program?
-walter
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Le 14/04/2012 23:00, Walter Bender a écrit :
Nice implementation of what I thought everyone has routinely done when first teaching kids Logo. Am I missing something?
-walter
Interesting article. Routinely done? I did not even get that chance when I was at school. It would have been high fun and probably changed any things. I guess programming at school even at the pick of the Logo era was something very marginal.
Hilaire
Hi Karl, This is a nice example and looks like the kids/family are having fun and learning at the same time. I have used some activities like these with my young students and notice how strictly they enforce precision when they are they robot and how that improves precision when it is their turn controlling the robot.
Lenny Pitt, CS UIUC, wrote/compiled a set of lessons called MathmaniaCS. http://www.mathmaniacs.org/ We have used several of these with teachers in our Google grant summer workshops: Introduction to Programming with Etoys. The responses from teachers, at the workshop and later in the evaluations, have been very favorable. Followup evaluations from teachers indicate they are using some of the lessons and plan to use more. As far as I can tell from their responses, they were not aware of these kinds of activities before the workshop.
Regards, Kathleen
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A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
Karl
I have seen the several mentions of how to teach logo and programming to kids. This was just cute and I liked how it involved the parent. Kids love to tell the parent what to do :-)
Nice set of lectures. I will look at them
Karl
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Harness, Kathleen kharness@illinois.eduwrote:
Hi Karl, This is a nice example and looks like the kids/family are having fun and learning at the same time. I have used some activities like these with my young students and notice how strictly they enforce precision when they are they robot and how that improves precision when it is their turn controlling the robot.
Lenny Pitt, CS UIUC, wrote/compiled a set of lessons called MathmaniaCS. http://www.mathmaniacs.org/ We have used several of these with teachers in our Google grant summer workshops: Introduction to Programming with Etoys. The responses from teachers, at the workshop and later in the evaluations, have been very favorable. Followup evaluations from teachers indicate they are using some of the lessons and plan to use more. As far as I can tell from their responses, they were not aware of these kinds of activities before the workshop.
Regards, Kathleen
*From:* etoys-dev-bounces@squeakland.org [etoys-dev-bounces@squeakland.org] on behalf of karl ra mberg [karlramberg@gmail.com] *Sent:* Saturday, April 14, 2012 2:00 PM *To:* etoys dev *Subject:* [etoys-dev] how-to-train-your-robot
A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
Karl
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