On 01/23/2012 01:18 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
Was reading the news today...
http://gcn.com/Articles/2012/01/19/New-York-high-school-software-engineering.aspx?Page=1
Short version is that in "September New York City will open its first
public high school dedicated to training kids in software development:
The Academy for Software Engineering."
I wonder how they plan on recruiting, how they plan on teaching, and
so on... the article reports that "the school was the brainchild of
Mike Zamansky, a teacher at Stuyvesant High School," so if anyone
knows more about this I'd be super-curious about it.
Would they be interested in TOS? I know we have some folks from New
York colleges here who might be interested in enrolling graduates from
this sort of program, and wonder if starting high school students
early in the same (H?)FOSS projects as some nearby colleges could be a
nice opportunity for vertical learning, peer teaching, and involving
students in a community of practice that is real *and* also has
scaffolding to accommodate them.
--Mel
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One can hope that the experience described in this article (specifically
the AP section) isn't planned.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/how-i-failed-failed-and-finally-succeeded-at-learning-how-to-code/239855/?single_page=true
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