Hi, I have a similar oportunity to use squeak with children in an experimental short course (4 days x 4 hours x ~12 children) at Buenos Aires, Argentina. I will be very pleased if you can share experiencies (or links) teaching smalltalk concepts to children of ~12->15 years old. thanks in advance, Ale. http://www.smalltalking.net
---------- De: Mark A. Schwenk[SMTP:mas@wellthot.com] Responder a: squeakland@squeakland.org Enviado el: Jueves 10 de Mayo de 2001 00:49 Para: Origbj@aol.com; squeakland@squeakland.org Asunto: Re: Introducing children and/or school to Squeak
B.J.,
I'd also like to hear more details of your lessons, as well as any Squeak-centric preparatory work.
I talked with the Youth Services Director at our local library this evening about teaching a free course at the library. We are now planning to offer a Squeaking With Your Computer workshop consisting of two two-hour sessions. The sessions would be spread across two consecutive Saturdays in July and would be offered to six student-parent pairs. The students would be fourth and fifth graders. Although initially we considered twelve students, the Director thought that many parents would be interested and would like to participate. What do others think? Perhaps later we could hold separate workshops for parents and teachers in addition to the young student classes.
As we gain more experience with this, I think Squeaking classes could become a regular offering at our library. The library staff members I have spoken with feel quite comfortable with the notion that Squeak could be an essential part of the new literacy, and thus part of their mission.
Then we can expand into the local schools...
I had previously worked with one local high-school senior who served an internship at WellThot to create a Squeak test suite (which inspired some of Richard Harmon's work on Smalltalk test suites that grew into the Camp Smalltalk ANSI test suites, now included with the Squeak World Tour image).
Before long we may grow a local community of Squeakers!
-Mark Schwenk WellThot Inc.
At 5/9/2001 10:17 AM, James Howe wrote:
At 10:27 PM 5/8/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Hi:
I am a teacher at a charter school and have been using Squeak in my
classroom for 2 years. I have tied my lessons into the standards and would be happy to share what I have done with my students.
B.J.Conn Open Charter School
I would be interested in anything you have to share about what you did with your students. I'm particularly interested in how you got your students started using Squeak in the first place. What sort of basics were needed to be taught before the students could start on projects? I would also be interested in hearing about some of the projects you had your students work on. I've seen a couple on Squeakland, but I would be interested in knowing about others.
Thanks.
James W. Howe mailto:jwh@allencreek.com Allen Creek Software, Inc. pgpkey: http://ic.net/~jwh/pgpkey.html Ann Arbor, MI 48103
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