Hello Mokurai Would you take a look at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art/Tutorials, and talk > with us, the Spanish translators, and the teachers about > > a) translating these pages into Spanish > b) what is needed so that teachers can use these ideas in class > >
I find the link empty... a) Yes. I can help translating your tutorials for Turtle (please send me the exact link) . When I don t understand I ask. b) No. Unfortunately I cannot make class planifications on the subject. My offer for fitting in uruguayan secondary school curricular structure planifications of classes using Abacus.xo still stands. --I ve studied maths and learning for 4 full years exclusively and been working on highschools for the last 10 years, teaching from negative numbers to matrixes and integrals, but I am just an newbie when going into programming languages... sorry.-- My tutorials combine a high-level look at a topic, ideas for introducing > some part of it to children as early as possible, and a Turtle Art > demonstration of some part of the idea. Each idea needs expansion to > lesson plans, with feedback from classrooms and individual tutoring on how > they work and how they need to be improved. Each idea also needs > implementation in Logo (which we can get by automatic translation from > TA), Python, Smalltalk/Etoys, GeoGebra, and other software. > > On top of all that, we need to create a usable sequence of ideas and > examples leading from no computer (You Be the Turtle tutorial), through > introducing TA (Mathematics and Art tutorial), through the essential > concepts and techniques of programming and Computer Science, to competence > in Python, Logo, Smalltalk, and any other language of interest. > > > Ana. > > > > ps. > > Working among early grades students is harder and it less payed-- because > > traditionally upper grade studying needed society stimulation. > > In uruguay 2ndary teachers is a strictly ordered set ( 19 lists, one for > > each region) , and in that order is invited to choose --every year--- the > > grade and the school to work. Nobody wants to work with early years of > > public highschool having other choice... > > (system could help education a lot with some really little changes, but > as > > little changes don t make political issues, nobody promotes them) > > In computer programming, making many little improvements is known as > refactoring. > > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44936.Refactoring > > "Each refactoring step is simple-seemingly too simple to be worth doing. > Refactoring may involve moving a field from one class to another, or > pulling some code out of a method to turn it into its own method, or even > pushing some code up or down a hierarchy. While these individual steps may > seem elementary, the cumulative effect of such small changes can radically > improve the design. Refactoring is a proven way to prevent software > decay." > > The payoff is huge. We must find incentives to work on it. Perhaps for > some teachers, being able to affect the design of the teaching may be a > useful incentive. I know that in the profession generally, the biggest > incentive available is the possibility of teaching effectively. > > Thanks for the concept of refactoring, educational system would take great advatange of it, but I don t see in my place any political interest on that. It is just a fact. As you say, the possibility of teaching effectively can be enaugh reward, but I learnt ---in these working years-- that your individual effort can fail completely when working among a disfunctional system and we must not row with a strong current against :) > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > -- > Edward Mokurai > > (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر > ج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks > > >
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