Strange Loop Unsession on Hacking Education

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#Hacking Education Summary

Online tools

• Kahn academy
• Starfall.com
• EPGY
• supplements for education
• Alternative math education
  • Kill Math

Issues in school

• mistakes in curriculum
• dealing with boredom
• interaction issues
• learning styles

Teaching Hackers Summary

Different tools

• Books
  • Manning's Hello Python book
    • Written in the style of kids
  • _why's guide
    • Some questionable content
  • Snake wrangler's python book
• Scratch
  • Visual programming environment
    • Came out of MIT
    • Built on top of Smalltalk
    • Put together components
      • Loop components
  • Draw pictures on the canvas
  • Animate
  • Change Costumes
• Logo
  • There's a 3D version now
  • StarLogo TNG
• Pine?
  • @ultrasaurus
• Snap Circuits
  • Grid of components snappable
• Something based on Racket
• Pair Programming
  • Kids seem to be doing more collaborative work now
  • @coty mentioned that his older and younger children would "pair" in Scratch with the younger drawing scenes and sprites and then asking the older to animate.
• Minecraft
• Caesar cyphers
• Google App Maker - Android
  • Think this is now maintained by MIT as App Inventor
• Google Blockly
• Kodu
  • XBox graphical environment
• Supercollider
  • Music app
• Khan Academy - Processing.js course

Pedagogy

• keeping kids engaged
• do less to get something interesting running
• gap in learning styles

Actions

• port Scratch to HTML5