LiveCode in K-6 school environment

[Scott Morrow]

Hello Monte,
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> - Starting programming for older kids (9 or 10 year olds). 

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.  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...  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.

Scott Morrow

Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust!)
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On Sep 22, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm about to start doing a day a week at my kids school to help them with their ICT program and I'm interested to hear the experiences of anyone using LiveCode in that environment. I'm thinking in terms of:
> - providing tools for teachers. 
> - eLearning for young kids. 
> - Starting programming for older kids (9 or 10 year olds). 
> - providing tools for parents or school/parent communication
> 
> Cheers
> 
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> Monte Goulding
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