Simran, Topic after my heart .. my 12yo son has written quite a few projects in Scratch over the past few years, most recently a "chat bot". He's kind of at the point where the logic is a bit complex for a visual code builder and would be simpler as code. With a bit of help he's managed to get colored objects bouncing around and colliding using javascript and the html5 canvas api...
Another site we looked at was Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/programming What I _really_ like about all this is not just the code part, also its a way for kids to learn _math_ : which is more visual, experimental and kind of tactile ( you'll never forget pythagoras' rule for working out distance if you've used it to detect collisions in a game). The other thing I'm discussing with my sons school is a "Math Circle" for students who perhaps find the core material a bit easy, and like the kind of math problems you see in, say, the Australian Math Competition. Circles have worked well overseas, but as far as I know only one group in Aus doing this ( in WA ). Some of my thoughts on perhaps combining the two approaches, on my blog - https://quantblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/mathcircle-with-code/ Always happy to swap notes, feel free to pm me etc, cheers, gord. Melbourne On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 6:11:36 PM UTC+11, simran wrote: > > Hi All, > > My kids primary school teacher this afternoon spoke to me about wanting to > introduce coding for the school (she's the person the principal looks to > for recommendation on tech; and she's very tech savvy). > > She was a little stuck on where to start though... If there is anyone on > this list that is happy to catchup with her to help formulate the school > vision (and more) around teaching kids how to code, please email me, and > i'll setup a meeting. (fyi, the school is in the sutherland shire) > > cheers, > > simran. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
