[IAEP] Walter's visit

[Edward Cherlin]

Second Rita's suggestion. The transition from tile-based programming
in Turtle Art to Etoys projects can be made very easy. The same for
Scratch. Since Turtle Art can save programs in Logo, it also gives a
good start to learning the UCBLogo Activity.

This last Saturday I gave a presentation on Learning Python in
Elementary School at Silicon Valley Code Camp. You use the
programmable tiles to get students started, including editing in
Pippy. When students have a good grasp of creating tiles inside TA,
you can give them the TA code for the tile functions in Python to
learn from.

Turtle Art also has stack functions, usable for teaching a number of
Computer Science ideas, or for getting a toe in the water for the
FORTH provided in Open FirmWare.

Some of us are working on yet other programming languages for the children.

Thanks for the video.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Rita Freudenberg
<rita at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
> Gerald Ardito wrote:
>> As some of you know, I am a middle school teacher and doctoral student
>> working with 150 XO laptops in a set of 5th grade classrooms. My
>> research interest is to see how those devices and the Sugar software
>> impact the learning environment of the classroom.
>>
>> We were fortunate enough to have Walter spend a day with us yesterday.
>> He spent a session with each our 6 5th grade classrooms, teaching the
>> children some basics of Turtle Art. He also then spent time with the
>> teachers and our superintendent. The day was incredibly powerful and
>> valuable to all of us. At one point, he was even mobbed by students
>> for his autograph!
>>
>> I created a short video of the visit, which you can see here:
>> http://animoto.com/play/2hVwpobfxD4cs1OMSBlDVg
>
> That looks like an amazing day!
>
> Gerald, did you ever try Etoys? Please let me know if you are
> interested, we have teachers who did great things with Etoys in their
> classroom!
>
> http://www.squeakland.org/
>
> Greetings,
> Rita
>>
>> Enjoy! Thanks, Walter.
>>
>> Gerald
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