Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?
Thank you, Peter. This gets me closer. Oddly enough, my Amtrak train wifi connection filter is blocking out the site, so I'll have to check out the rest of it when I get to work ;-) Judy On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Peter W A Wood wrote: This probably isn't what you're looking for but it may help - http://www.stemnet.org.uk/news/view/1232326 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?
Thank you, Devin. On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Devin Asay wrote: 2. If and where the 30-day free trial went (link). It appears to be a 60-day trial now: http://www.runrev.com/Get-Started/ Devin ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?
On 14/02/2013 05:19, Judy Perry wrote: I seem to recall that in the last year or so, there was a UK STEM initiative to introduce programming in the schools but I've lost the link and was wondering if any of you possibly had it? I'm afraid that initiative is a bit optimistic - after years in which ICT in our schools has meant teaching kids to use PowerPoint and Excel, our Education Minister (= Secretary of State for E in your terms) suddenly announced that he (like a lot of people who've been mouthing off about this for a while) thought it should actually teach control of the machines. Unfortunately as far as I know this hasn't progressed beyond a photo-op with Eric Schmidt, who's just bought a bunch of Raspberry Pis for schools [1] (because Google would like to have a larger supply of programmers trained for them, although they evade paying their share of the taxes to pay for this [2].) This was really the origin of the Pi - the idea was that it would help introduce programming in schools - but I've always thought this was nonsense, as the problem with programming in schools isn't that they don't have computers, but that the ICT teachers don't know how to program themselves - they have computers, that's what they teach PowerPoint on... When my daughter started at secondary school I spoke to the ICT teacher at each of the schools we visited - they all said that they'd love to teach programming - but actually none of them did. See also [3]. The other thing we have going on is Code Club, which Peter linked you to - this is totally volunteer (one of my colleagues is running one at his kid's school, and we've hosted sessions at our office), and is based on Scratch. It's a very good well-worked out scheme, but while I think Scratch is an excellent system for the very beginning stages of learning, it obviously limits how far kids can go with it - which is where I think LC represents a great advantage. [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18182280 [2] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/google-boss-im-very-proud-of-our-tax-avoidance-scheme-8411974.html [3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18187205 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Name of UK Tech Initiative?
Hi all, I seem to recall that in the last year or so, there was a UK STEM initiative to introduce programming in the schools but I've lost the link and was wondering if any of you possibly had it? I usually have a small part of one assignment for my students involving making them aware of open source software, but was thinking I could utilize the kickstart initiative as a more intensive course experience and have already shared the kickstart page and one of the RunRev videos (for the 4 or 5 CS majors) on the one line of LC code versus 9 of JS. It could be made larger still if I could figure out what happened to the 30 free trial version and show them how to make some simple stack(s) and then have them discuss the role of programming in education and have them reflect on their experiences using LC. So, I guess I'm looking for two things: 1. The link on the UK taking programming in education seriously initiative; and 2. If and where the 30-day free trial went (link). Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Judy ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?
On Feb 13, 2013, at 10:19 PM, Judy Perry wrote: So, I guess I'm looking for two things: 1. The link on the UK taking programming in education seriously initiative; and Can't help you here, but... 2. If and where the 30-day free trial went (link). It appears to be a 60-day trial now: http://www.runrev.com/Get-Started/ Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?
This probably isn't what you're looking for but it may help - http://www.stemnet.org.uk/news/view/1232326 On 14 Feb 2013, at 13:19, Judy Perry wrote: Hi all, I seem to recall that in the last year or so, there was a UK STEM initiative to introduce programming in the schools but I've lost the link and was wondering if any of you possibly had it? I usually have a small part of one assignment for my students involving making them aware of open source software, but was thinking I could utilize the kickstart initiative as a more intensive course experience and have already shared the kickstart page and one of the RunRev videos (for the 4 or 5 CS majors) on the one line of LC code versus 9 of JS. It could be made larger still if I could figure out what happened to the 30 free trial version and show them how to make some simple stack(s) and then have them discuss the role of programming in education and have them reflect on their experiences using LC. So, I guess I'm looking for two things: 1. The link on the UK taking programming in education seriously initiative; and 2. If and where the 30-day free trial went (link). Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Judy ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
