> On May 3, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On 3 May 2016 at 21:45, Josh Greenhalgh wrote: > | Hi people of SWC, > | > | I would like to try teaching SWC material to high school students - those > doing physics/maths/computing at A-level (students between 16 and 18 in > England). Has anyone ever attempted this? Are they perhaps too far away from > doing “research” for it to be of any use to them? What do people think? > > I thought about it.
I used the R lesson with my daughter with some success at age 16 for a science project. I suspect that a 2-full-day course would be pretty intense for high school students, but I think the material is certainly within their grasp. I do wonder whether they would be able to apply it regularly enough to “make it stick” though. > My two daughters are in that very age bracket. The older one is off to > college in the fall and just did a year-long reasearch project which, per the > instructions of her teacher, did it 'all wrong' by our standards: data > analysis, regression, charts in Excel; write-up in Word and presentations in > Powerpoint. > > But it would take more time and effort that I have available to work with the > teachers etc pp. I kind of like the insinuation here that we could have a very positive impact by focusing on educators. Sean > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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