Hi Scott > > It sounds like the age of children you are looking at may be a challenging > group if writing code is the goal. I teach 8 and 9 year olds and my > experience teaching them HyperCard (and last year, revMedia) is that (no > matter how hard I wish it to be different) very few are developmentally ready > to program.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking but I didn't want to assume anything given my 4 year old is a wiz on the iPad ;-). The oldest kids will be about 12 I think. > A simple PowerPoint type interface and/or templates that they can customize > is more appropriate with the kiddos I work with. A few of the more gifted 9 > year olds can get their head around variables and if-then branching but my > experience (and the general consensus of folks I spoke to at a few RevCons) > was that 10 or 11 year olds were usually better able to think at that level > of abstraction... OK, I might tell them it's best if it's only year 6 and small groups of keen kids. > On the other hand, it hasn't stopped me from exposing kids to scripting in > order to see who gets a light in their eyes! Let us know what you end up > doing. I'm certain I'm not alone in wanting to know what someone of your > skill will end up contributing inside a school setting. Ah, now you've got me blushing ;-) Cheers -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding Software Development Bespoke application development for vertical markets InstallGadget - How to create an installer in 10 seconds revObjective - Making behavior scripts behave _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
