Re: [IAEP] Future Direction

2015-03-05 Thread Tony Anderson
Thanks for this. In an after school environment, this strategy should work very well. It means that someone must be the firestarter, perhaps at a pre-school training session. I am not sure about how this could be accomplished where after-school programs are not feasible. At some of the

Re: [IAEP] Future Direction

2015-03-05 Thread Alan Kay
Hi I agree with your first paragraph (although I don't know of really discoverable programming systems -- even Scratch has lots of conventions that are hard to discover). But I do agree that 5-10% of an population is better matched up to a given topic, and that the rest need more help of

Re: [IAEP] Future Direction

2015-03-05 Thread Sora Edwards-Thro
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: But there are good materials for learning Etoys, especially in Spanish, and especially for teachers. What Spanish materials exist? The last part I don't agree with because it contains a misconception about how to teach