Thank you everyone for all the input. Each of you made some great points or
provided some great references. I appreciate it!
-Mike
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:08 AM, alex <alex_at_slab.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm planning on doing some workshops with younger people this year too
> and am hoping to take a craft approach, teaching pattern making with
> both yarn and code.
>
> The live coding research network formally starts next month, and has a
> research workshop on live coding and education scheduled for early
> 2015. It could be a nice opportunity to bring this activity together,
> ideas towards this very welcome!
>
> Back to the original question, Andrew already included Mark Guzdial's
> blog in his comprehensive list of resources, but I'd just recommend
> looking up Mark's work on "Media Computation" in particular.
>
> Cheers,
>
> alex
>
> On 29 January 2014 09:52, David Griffiths <dave_at_pawfal.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > I've been teaching primary school children (on a voluntary basis) for
> > over a year now, mostly scratch, now moving on to raspberry pi (probably
> > still scratch, but controlling lego). We're part of the UK's codeclub
> > thing: http://codeclub.org.uk/
> >
> > Which has recently gone global: http://codeclubworld.org/
> >
> > They provide a lot of well thought out lesson plans (but the age range
> > is more 7-12 so perhaps a bit young for you).
> >
> > Specific to livecoding - I would say that scratch is live, in that they
> > are constantly altering a running program (you can edit, start and stop
> > bits of code independently of each other) and this is an integral and
> > natural part of the learning process. They are constantly explaining
> > what they are doing to each other as they work, and this becomes a kind
> > of narrative which seems important.
> >
> > The barrier to learning other languages in this age range is the typing
> > and spelling skills, I find it interesting that the underlying
> > programming concepts come much easier to them than these more tangential
> > things.
> >
> > I'm currently designing a course for teenagers (people interested in
> > computer music and DJing mostly) to learn programming, and for this I'm
> > going to be plundering existing livecoding languages much more freely,
> > and using music as the common ground to introduce programming concepts.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > dave
> >
> > On 28/01/14 19:29, Mike Hodnick wrote:
> >> Hi all -
> >>
> >> Are any of you aware of an existing curriculum for teaching children
> >> (aged 12-13 years old) about live coding? I'm working with a local
> >> school on teaching some of their students about live coding. These
> >> students have some basic hands-on programming experience already. We're
> >> looking to have the students be able to demonstrate what they learn
> >> (ideas, concepts, hands-on application) as we build up to a final live
> >> coding performance.
> >>
> >> While I've been trying to generate some excitement about live coding
> >> here in the US and in my city, I never thought it would catch on with
> >> kids and schools first. I think this ties in perfectly with the ideas
> >> about live coding's impact on education, as outlined
> >> here:
> http://toplap.org/dagstuhl-seminar-report-collaboration-and-learning-through-live-coding/
> .
> >> However, I feel like I'm in over my head in this area. I do not have a
> >> formal background in pedagogy and would like to learn of any reference
> >> material for getting children exposed to live coding. Does anyone have
> >> any experience with this?
> >>
> >> -Mike
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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