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Neat! I donated. This semester I've been volunteering to teach middle-school students how to "program a game!" with the very wonderful Citizen Schools program[

Neat! I donated. This semester I've been volunteering to teach middle-school students how to "program a game!" with the very wonderful Citizen Schools program[1]. We've been developing a curriculum that takes elements from the Bootstrap curriculum[2], using the Khan Academy CS environment[3]. (Yes, we've been following the back-and-forth with Bret Victor carefully.) It's been challenging, but very rewarding, and I hope other engineers take seriously their obligation to apply some of their good fortune and education for the benefit of others. [1] http://www.citizenschools.org/ http://www.citizenschools.org/ [2] http://www.bootstrapworld.org/ http://www.bootstrapworld.org/ [3] http://www.khanacademy.org/cs http://www.khanacademy.org/cs

esmooov 14y ago
That's really excellent. It's funny, although not entirely surprising, but we have also been using parts of Khan and Bret Victor. The students seemed to really enjoy the sandbox of Khan as a starter to what is possible with code. Repl.it was a big help as well. The hard/fun part is transitioning between the experimenting and learning with these out-of-the-box tools to experimenting and learning by actually making your own stuff. I - and I'm sure the other ScriptEd folks - would love to hear more about your experience (scriptednyc@gmail.com).
charleshaanel 14y ago
Mad props for your work...