Max Shinn wrote:
1. What kinds of programs should children write? Short answer: ask themI think this is easier said than done. In my experiences, young children have absolutely no idea what is possible, and don't have any sense of scope, i.e. "this is hard, this is easy". For you and I who know already know some programming, we already know that a 3D video game is probably out of the question, and even a side-scroller is probably a lot. I think this is a very valid question and worthy of discussion, and my experience of teach programming to young children would have been much more successful if I had come in with ideas. -Max
Hi Max and all,In a previous reply I said that the long answer is complex and I pointed to my own MAP site, see below. A more recent answer, as basic but with modern technologies can be found here:
http://nand2tetris.org/ And related to K12: http://www.ted.com/talks/shimon_schocken_the_self_organizing_computer_course.htmlThere is an old saying from an old pricipal of the primary school of my old colleague:
"Teacher and pupil suppose each other, Learning supposes neither of them." Kind regards, Dirk -- Our Open Source projects for schools: - Website@School (Content Management Learning System): Main site: http://websiteatschool.eu Manual (latest versions): http://wyxs.net/web/was/ - Digital interactive whiteboard for  99,95: DIY: http://wyxs.net/web/wiiscan/ Non-DYI: http://onsbord.nl - ServerAtSchool (Server-client system): http://serveratschool.net ServerAtSchool Dutch site: http://serveropschool.nl - Association "Schools Together Rich with ICT" (STRICT) http://strict.nu Media Action Projects: Sold out. See free PDF On the use of media in education http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schoutdi/ Now also translated in Japanese -------------------------------------------------------- ### To unsubscribe from the schoolforge-discuss mailing list: Send an e-mail message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with no subject and a body of "unsubscribe schoolforge-discuss"