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owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:
> From: Scott Raney <raney@metacard.com>
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: Language to teach 10 year olds
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 Harish Pillay 9v1hp <harish@iqmind.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi. I have been asked by a math teacher of a primary school (7-12 year olds),
> > to come up with a plan to help 10/11 year olds design a set of applications
> > that help teach math to primary one students (7 year olds).
> >
> > The idea is for these 10 year olds to create animated applications to teach
> > things like addition, subtraction in a fun and game like manner. The object
> > is to have these apps have some form of animation (simple) and help to
> > re-inforce what has been covered in class for the 7 year olds. The 10 year
> > olds would have learned how to work in a project team and also how to design
> > applications to deliver a message.
> >
> > I am torn between proposing the likes of illumatus/director and perhaps
> > smalltalk/logo. I am seeking ideas on how else I can do this. Although it
> > is not important that Linux be used here, I will have a good reason to
> > introduce it if the overall scheme is right.
>
> Take a look at the K12 program for our product MetaCard
> (http://www.metacard.com/pi6.html). It's scripting-language based GUI
> IDE. The language itself is a superset of the HyperTalk language used
> in HyperCard, and is *far* easier to learn than Logo, BASIC, Tcl,
> Python, or pretty much any other language you can name. And unlike
> most of those, it's a fully integrated graphical environment so you
> don't have to teach kids how to create buttons and fields by writing
> scripts (do any of the people proposing Tcl and Python for kids have
> any clue that learning or doing things in those languages is twice as
> much work as in a tool that does layout graphically?)
>
> MetaCard is a commercial product, but is competitively priced with
> other development tools for the K12 market, and runs on Win32, MacOS,
> Linux, and most other popular UNIX systems.
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> ********************************************************
> Scott Raney raney@metacard.com http://www.metacard.com
> MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that...
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From: Scott Raney <raney@metacard.com>
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Subject: Re: Language to teach 10 year olds
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 Harish Pillay 9v1hp <harish@iqmind.com> wrote:
> Hi. I have been asked by a math teacher of a primary school (7-12 year olds),
> to come up with a plan to help 10/11 year olds design a set of applications
> that help teach math to primary one students (7 year olds).
>
> The idea is for these 10 year olds to create animated applications to teach
> things like addition, subtraction in a fun and game like manner. The object
> is to have these apps have some form of animation (simple) and help to
> re-inforce what has been covered in class for the 7 year olds. The 10 year
> olds would have learned how to work in a project team and also how to design
> applications to deliver a message.
>
> I am torn between proposing the likes of illumatus/director and perhaps
> smalltalk/logo. I am seeking ideas on how else I can do this. Although it
> is not important that Linux be used here, I will have a good reason to
> introduce it if the overall scheme is right.
Take a look at the K12 program for our product MetaCard
(http://www.metacard.com/pi6.html). It's scripting-language based GUI
IDE. The language itself is a superset of the HyperTalk language used
in HyperCard, and is *far* easier to learn than Logo, BASIC, Tcl,
Python, or pretty much any other language you can name. And unlike
most of those, it's a fully integrated graphical environment so you
don't have to teach kids how to create buttons and fields by writing
scripts (do any of the people proposing Tcl and Python for kids have
any clue that learning or doing things in those languages is twice as
much work as in a tool that does layout graphically?)
MetaCard is a commercial product, but is competitively priced with
other development tools for the K12 market, and runs on Win32, MacOS,
Linux, and most other popular UNIX systems.
Regards,
Scott
> Thanks and regards.
> - --
> Harish Pillay 9v1hp, Chief Technology Officer
> I Q m i n d . c o m -- Where Learning Never Ceases
>
> http://www.iqmind.com
> w 65.323.6838 x 12 f 65.323.0208
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