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Karl Ramberg

how-to-train-your-robot

A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming

http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/

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Walter Bender

Re: how-to-train-your-robot

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
> A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
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> http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
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Nice implementation of what I thought everyone has routinely done when
first teaching kids Logo. Am I missing something?

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Bert Freudenberg

Re: how-to-train-your-robot

(moving to IAEP list)

On 14.04.2012, at 14:00, Walter Bender wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
>>
>> http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
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> Nice implementation of what I thought everyone has routinely done when
> first teaching kids Logo. Am I missing something?
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> -walter

Seems very few are doing it anymore, nowadays.

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On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]> wrote:

> (moving to IAEP list)
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> On 14.04.2012, at 14:00, Walter Bender wrote:
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>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming
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>>> http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
>>>
>> Nice implementation of what I thought everyone has routinely done when
>> first teaching kids Logo. Am I missing something?
>>
>> -walter
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> Seems very few are doing it anymore, nowadays.

It being teaching kids to program?

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Harness, Kathleen

Re: how-to-train-your-robot

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Hi Karl,
This is a nice example and looks like the kids/family are having fun and learning at the same time. I have used some activities like these with my young students and notice how strictly they enforce precision when they are they robot and how that improves precision when it is their turn controlling the robot.

Lenny Pitt, CS UIUC, wrote/compiled a set of lessons called MathmaniaCS. http://www.mathmaniacs.org/
We have used several of these with teachers in our Google grant summer workshops: Introduction to Programming with Etoys. The responses from teachers, at the workshop and later in the evaluations, have been very favorable. Followup evaluations from teachers indicate they are using some of the lessons and plan to use more. As far as I can tell from their responses, they were not aware of these kinds of activities before the workshop.

Regards,
Kathleen

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A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming

http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/

Karl

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Karl Ramberg

Re: how-to-train-your-robot

I have seen the several mentions of how to teach logo and programming to kids.

This was just cute and I liked how it involved the parent.

Kids love to tell the parent what to do :-)

Nice set of lectures.

I will look at them

Karl

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Harness, Kathleen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Karl,
This is a nice example and looks like the kids/family are having fun and learning at the same time. I have used some activities like these with my young students and notice how strictly they enforce precision when they are they robot and how that improves precision when it is their turn controlling the robot.

Lenny Pitt, CS UIUC, wrote/compiled a set of lessons called MathmaniaCS. http://www.mathmaniacs.org/
We have used several of these with teachers in our Google grant summer workshops: Introduction to Programming with Etoys. The responses from teachers, at the workshop and later in the evaluations, have been very favorable. Followup evaluations from teachers indicate they are using some of the lessons and plan to use more. As far as I can tell from their responses, they were not aware of these kinds of activities before the workshop.

Regards,
Kathleen

From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] on behalf of karl ra mberg [[hidden email]]
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A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming

http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/

Karl

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