On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:09, Jan Wildeboer <jwild...@redhat.com> wrote: > The advantage of Arduino is that you can tap into the wisdom of a big > community. You can invite people to explain, assist from that community. And > share your results with the community. > > Having that integrated is key IMHO.
Absolutely. I'm not at all down on the Arduino (I'm currently investing a lot of time and effort into the platform), but teachers are Insanely Busy People. Unless you're prepared/able to invest time, I don't think there are plug-n-play solutions for using the Arduino in educational contexts at the moment. I have some research to do before I write about this on the blag, though. Mel pointed at a few resources that I'll echo there, but my suspicion is that all of these resources assume you're able/willing to devote hours to teaching yourself a lot. Bootstrapping a classroom of 20-30 students, working in groups of 2-3, into programming the Arduino using ANSI C is... daunting at best. As soon as I get through the next day or two, I'll try and capture some of these ideas in a more coherent format. Cheers, Matt _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
