[IAEP] Walter's visit

[DancesWithCars]

interesting conversation about programming
languages and how students use the tools
provided...


But sure wish Walter/ Nick would visit DC
and stop by OLPCLearningClub users group
meeting or the last ClassActs book sprint
on their visit/ PR / sales tour of Congress...


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 03:49, Gerald Ardito <gerald.ardito at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rita and Edward,
>>
>> I am very interested in EToys and Scratch.
>> Last year, one of our 5th grade classes used EToys to create lab reports
>> after science fair projects. We were really just beginning with the XOs and
>> EToys, but they were really fascinated with the scripting/programming piece.
>> And I have used Scratch with my 7th graders, which they loved (me, too).
>> I have not yet played much with Pippy, and have as a goal for myself
>> learning Python.
>
> The place for the children to start learning Python is the
> programmable tiles in Turtle Art. One takes an expression, and one
> reads code from an external file, which you can edit in Pippy. Pippy
> gives children a simple IDE for writing, testing, debugging, and
> running Python code, with tutorial examples. I have recently done a
> presentation on Learning Python in Elementary School, and need to
> write it up and make it available. Students can go on from there to
> the Turtle Graphics in Smalltalk (Etoys) and Logo. Turtle Art also
> makes it easy to present a variety of Computer Science ideas, and to
> learn about other languages.
>
>> Thanks for your support. If you have tutorials, videos, etc. to share or
>
> Gravity lesson for third grade:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gravity.odt
>
> Issues in teaching Sugar:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable
>
>> would be available for some conversations about utilizing these tools,
>> please let me know.
>
> Yes, definitely. Feedback from the field is what we most lack.
>
>> Best,
>> Gerald
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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>>> > Rita Freudenberg
>>> > Squeakland Foundation
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>>>
>>> --
>>> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
>>> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
>>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
>>> http://earthtreasury.org/
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin
> Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation.
> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination.
> http://earthtreasury.org/
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