This is best done outside in the yard and works best with 6-8 yr olds Divide the class into groups of about 5. One person in each group is chosen as the robot and is blindfolded. Another is the programmer (or choose two and let them take it in turns). The rest are going to Full Article…
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Programming children (if only!)
Michael Gove, the UK’s Education Minister (a bit of a misnomer because he has no jurisdiction outside England!) has recently made the headlines because he has announced that all children will now learn computer programming in school. The brief consultation process showed that teachers were split down the middle on this issue with both sides Full Article…
Create your own app!
OMG! It’s official – I am an app developer. I have been playing with a gem of a program from MIT called App Inventor. It’s free, easy to use and I’ll let you know how kids get on with it next week. Meanwhile, this kid is having a ball playing with it. Basically, you build Full Article…
Raspberry Pi
Very excited to be the owner of a Raspberry Pi – a truly wondrous device with huge potential in the classroom. I was rather hoping I could use it in primary schools, but having battled with it for about a week with when it first arrived, I’d probably only use it it with 13-14 yr Full Article…
Behind the scenes
Age: 15 to 18 Goal: The students analyze a rather simple computer game like Pac-Man according to the concepts of object-oriented programming (class, object, instance, method etc.). What you need?: an online-version of the game (e.g. http://www.webpacman.com) enough computers for the groups Proceedings: 1. Introduction Object-oriented programming concepts UML-diagrams 2. Pupils’ task Study the game Full Article…
LearningApps.org
I’ve just come across this wonderful online application to make small interactive tools. It is a research and development project of the Center for Computer Education at University of Teacher Education Bern, in cooperation with the University of Mainz and the University of Zittau/Görlitz. Check it out on http://learningapps.org
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