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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