I think you're spot on about the advantage over the poor thing, as our
stronger public schools have a parent base that will fund and support Linux
labs, whereas where my daughter goes, they can't afford enough chairs for
the cafeteria, everyone has to spill out into Burgerville and Wendy's for
At 08:22 AM 12/8/2008 -0800, kirby urner wrote:
I think you're spot on about the advantage over the poor thing, as our
stronger public schools have a parent base that will fund and support Linux
labs,
I've also heard the argument that most kids will never be programmers ...
missing the point
David,
Here's my small nugget of experience:
My son goes to a prep school in southern CA, and when we met with his
adviser at the end of 8th grade last spring to plan out his high school
curriculum, I was floored to learn that there were no computer science
classes offered at all anymore. Here's
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:26 AM, David MacQuigg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 08:22 AM 12/8/2008 -0800, kirby urner wrote:
I think you're spot on about the advantage over the poor thing, as our
stronger public schools have a parent base that will fund and support Linux
labs,
I've also heard
David MacQuigg wrote:
Kirby,
This is very well written appeal, but in this mailing list, you may
be preaching to the choir. What I would like to see is a discussion
of *why* there is not more teaching of programming in high school. I
can't seem to get an answer from the few high-school
David:
What I would like to see is a discussion of *why* there is not more
teaching of programming in high school.
Especially given that 'integrating technology into the curriculum' is given
such lip service.
Most people equate technology with tool use. They seldom equate it with
language
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:10 PM, David MacQuigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:30 PM 12/8/2008 -0800, michel paul wrote:
David:
What I would like to see is a discussion of *why* there is not more
teaching of programming in high school.
I think part of the problem in the past has been the
Well, I'm a high school teacher, and today we started to learn about
programming in my 10th grade Principles of Computer Technology class.
I tell them that we do it because it's a good intellectual skill to
develop, it builds their problem solving and critical thinking
abilities, it's fun,
