[IAEP] Teaching kids to program - how to train your robot

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Martin Dengler
> <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:
> > Nice hack for holding kids' attention while teaching them
> > "programming": use the parents as the computer.
> >
> > http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
> >
> > I wonder if there is any direct tie-in to Sugar activities?
>
>
> For some reason I have a vague memory of someone doing a workshop
> where people holding XO laptops were acting like "robot turtles"
> driven by the programmed movements on the screen.  I have a mental
> image of people in a field.  Does anyone else remember something like
> that or am I just imagining it?
>

Not sure whether that's what you have in mind but IIRC Tim Falconer has
used a very similar approach in some of his eToys workshops on Haiti and
the Virgin Islands...

Cheers,
Christoph

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Christoph Derndorfer

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