On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Steve Thomas <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Walter Bender > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Tony Anderson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > The Khan Academy web site (http://www.khanacademy.org/) is announcing >> today >> > a 'playlist' on computer science. It appears to be an introduction to >> > programming based on Python! >> >> The funny thing is that many of the examples are also in the Turtle >> Art examples list :) >> > > Yes and also in Etoys, Scratch, etc. > > > But they have one thing you haven't got ... > > Okay more than one: > > - A nice set of short videos to walk you through using these tools to > learn/introduce/explain the concepts > > Agreed. Be nice to have some more videos. > > - A tool to let you try to solve a problem and give you feedback as to > whether you got it right or wrong > > Isn't that exactly what TurltleArt, Etoys and Scratch are: tools that give you feedback? > > - Hints when you don't get the answer > > Turtle Confusion and Turtle Amazonas have hints. But in general, we don't do this. In part, because in general, we don't present problems in that have explicit answers. > > - Social Network tools so a group of people can "learn together" and > support "collaboritve floundering" (as mentioned by Mark Guzdial > here<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1392a45cbc33615f> > ) > > When you "share" Turtle Art, you can share code snippets, outputs, chats, etc. But it is a peer-to-peer collaboration. > > - > > > The above might make good GSoC projects, sort of a Udacity using the > excellent tools to learn with in Sugar. > For sure!! > > Stephen > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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