Using live Code in English primary Schools

[Michael Doub]

Good teaching and general good stuff here:
http://livecode.com/who-is-it-for/teachers/
http://livecode.byu.edu/indexgeneric.php.

-= Mike


On Jan 25, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/01/14 17:27, Stephen King wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> My wife is a teacher and is considering Live Code in a new Computing lesson at Primary level or more senior students at Special schools (she actually teaches at a Special school where the academic level may be equivalent to primary).
>> 
>> Does anyone have any references to using Live Code in primary schools? Ideally English as they have a specific curriculum, but others if not. The main interest is what sort of programs can be easily implemented at this level, examples or getting started guides.
>> 
>> This is very much early days yet but the interest is there, so any information would be appreciated
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>> _______________________________________________
>> 
> 
> Do you mean that your wife wants to teach her pupils to program,
> or that she wishes to use Livecode to write programs to use with her children?
> 
> Obviously what happens next in our conversation will depend to a very large extent on your answer :)
> 
> I am an EFL teacher of some 25 year's standing who has taught EFL at all l;evels from Primary to University,
> and, perhaps more to the point, have developed many programs for use with Primary children, and taught
> Primary children elementary programming.
> 
> So . . . ask away.
> 
> Richmond Mathewson.
> 
> P.S. What do you mean by "special" in "Special Schools"? If the answer is "physically handicapped" or
> "societally maladjusted" I can probably help you rather better than "mentally handicapped"
> 
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