Hi, Everyone.
I've been teaching flow-charting & coding (BASIC and Python) in an
after-school club I developed called Tech Scouts (http://hvscouts.com)
and envisioning a new pilot program, looking for co-developers and
teachers. This is after-school so you don't need certification. I like
Codecademy and wanted to rely on it, but make modifications.
Here are the components:
* Students develop and submit code in teams, "open source" fashion.
* Team roles include coding, QA testing/debugging, and content
development.
* Franchise teachers (fluent in Codecademy, coding, blended learning
and project based learning) provide instruction and guidance.
* Franchise teachers and Codacademy "graduates" evolve a sequence of
"maker" projects aligned with redesigned Codecademy lessons.
* Program personnel record presentations (Khan Academy style) that
kick off Codeacademy sequences and projects.
* Projects conclude when student teams submit versioned code and media
to an online repository they will maintain, emulating open source
projects.
* This repository evolves from site-level to program-wide, so that
examples of "best practice" are linked to Codecademy lessons for study.
I'd love your feedback on the proposal, if you're interested in
providing some and maybe being involved in a pilot developer group
should that come to pass. Please email me back directly,
[email protected] from a gmail account (doesn't have to end in
@gmail.com of course) and I'll share a Google Doc with you for easy
commenting.
-Bram
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Bram Moreinis
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