sorry for this very late reply to your posts, unfortunately, gmail didn't append your replies to my original mail
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Andy Judkis <ajud...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> The How Things Work component is what's really important a lot of the >> time, and it's not just the personal computer on your desk that's >> important to comprehend. We need to explain about larger systems, >> institutions, in which computers play a role. This includes >> explaining about social networking software, not making kids simply >> guess or imagine what's going on behind the scenes. (+1) i think the approach H.T.W. is really good for all the reasons you've highlighted and beyond: are you aware of serious web resources with this way of learning in mind ? of course, especially tailored to math and/or CS >> > > Agreed. I think that familiarity with this stuff at some basic level is > important for all citizens, not just future tech geeks. > > Which kind of brings it back to Roberto's original post -- what should you > teach in a middle school CS class? I wouldn't focus on formal programming > at all -- at that age, I suspect that very few kids will find it compelling. > I'd point to http://csta.acm.org/Curriculum/sub/ACMK12CSModel.html and also > http://csunplugged.org/ for more ideas. > > Thanks, > Andy thank you very much again; i'd like to add here that my very first goal starting the thread was to know which approaches are currently in use to teach/learn CS, i.e. *how* to learn it more than *what* to learn, in the CS domain; with regard to this side of the topic, the first reply was perfectly on track, since i think the route Flowcharts pseudocode then actual programming: is one of the most diffused way of introducing CS, at least in high schools for sake of correctness, i must also say that it happens frequently that the *what* drives the *how-to*; thank you in advance if anyone has other ideas to share ps: i hope gmail will not mix the replies again :) -- roberto _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
