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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:59:39 -0500
Subject: CodeHero - a game to learn how to code
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CCodeHero, a gmae that teaches you to code, is raising money on kickstarter
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Does Education Scale?
In Silicon Valley, one often hears the question, “Does it scale?”
What a technologist wants to know is how a specific technological innovation
can be applied in a broad manner to affect a wide range of people. If
Google only searched two websites it wouldn’t be terribly useful. But
because Google scaled effectively to search the entire Internet, it became
extremely engaging.
When technologists think about education, they ask that same question. What
has brought projects like the Khan Academy to prominence is that they scale:
a single video can be watched by millions of people. While it’s wonderful
to give millions of people access to knowledge, I think we should be careful
when scaling education.
Often educational experiences aren’t scalable. I don’t think you can
replace the learning that comes from an intimate five-person discussion
about Shakespeare with watching a video from MIT, the Khan Academy, or
anywhere else. I don’t care who makes the video, or how great a teacher the
person is, having people to support and challenge your ideas is
irreplaceable.
I get frustrated when people talk about OpenCourseWare or the Khan Academy
as revolutionary. Don’t get me wrong, _both are doing wonderful things for
education_, but they still follow the same pedagogical model as the
classroom—a one-to-many model. The student is a recipient of knowledge and
only passively engaged. Certainly there are steps in the right
direction—Khan now offers exercises and some interaction. However, a
revolution is when students become active participants in learning,
improving, and sharing knowledge. A revolution is when students start to
teach.
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My friend Alex Peake, a fellow Hackademic who skipped college entirely, has
built a game called [3]CodeHero to help you learn how to code. What I love
about CodeHero is that Alex has made the player an active participant in the
game. Not only do you play the game, but as you play the game, _you
actually help build the game_. That's revolutionary.
Links:
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primerist/code-hero-a-game-that-teaches-you-to-make-games-he
Alex has figure out the only way to effectively scale education—by turning
students into teachers. As you progress through learning you are expected to
share your knowledge. When we expect people to share knowledge, we take
education offline and into the real world. It’s wonderful to have knowledge
available from MIT and the Khan Academy, but it’s not the same as people
geting together _in the real world_ to discuss what they have learned.
I’ll share more about projects creating real-world learning groups soon, but
I want to mention one last thing about CodeHero: [4]they are raising money
on KickStarter!
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primerist/code-hero-a-game-that-teaches-you-to-make-games-he
With one week to go, they have raised over $35,000—over one-third of their
goal—and they need our help. Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform, you can
help them by donating as little as $1, but they will only get the money if
their entire goal of $100,000 is met. If you donate $42 you’ll get a free
copy of the game to help you learn how to code.
If you’re interested in learning programming or computer science, I
encourage you to [5]check out CodeHero on Kickstarter and consider
donating. Even if you aren’t interested in learning to code, I encourage you
to check it out. CodeHero is a worthy cause and Alex is a smart guy.
Links:
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primerist/code-hero-a-game-that-teaches-you-to-make-games-he
Those of us trying to change education have to support each other—I backed
Alex on Kickstarter with $300. There is no financial incentive in this for
me, I just think CodeHero is awesome.
Keep on hacking,
Dale
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