I think you are talking about what in the Logo community is called Powerful Ideas:
http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~srudge/comp052/ideas.html Daniel On 10 Apr 2005 at 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I should add that I *do* believe there are some benefits to my students from > focused work on programming: > - I conjecture that the practice needed to get past the syntactic > barriers (like the f.write() example above) involved in reading and writing > code will carry over to their other classes, and that the computer's > instantaneous feedback helps develop these skills. There seems to be a > requisite level of reading skills, though, below which the fun of making > neat things happen doesn't outweigh the frustration of trying to figure out > how to right it. I'm not convinced that the time I spent on programming did > anything but turn off the students below that level. > - Learning about *design*, i.e., the skill of analyzing a problem > statement and planning out its solution, can carry over to *any* class my > students take. I feel that math, science, and English teachers should > already be working on this skill, too, and it's all too easily lost in > the deluge of content expected to be taught. > [...and other benefits with which the edu-sig reader will already be > familiar: making algebra seem more realistic, offering concrete ways to > visualize what's happening, etc...] > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
