Want to volunteer to teach kids programming?
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quit trying to teach kids with pseudo languages and actually teach them something they can use something like python is exactly what you should be teaching kids something they can take with them and build upon languages like Scratch and Alice are worthless because they require you to learn the program instead of the concepts once they get the concepts its a done deal they can choose they're own path...its 2013 kids are smart as fuck even at a young age.
We have a Python course ready to go for the kids that graduate from the Scratch class. We just need a couple more teachers.
I did and wrote http://edu.kde.org/kturtle
We're a non-profit videogame museum in downtown Oakland. We teach a weekly free programming class in MIT's Scratch. The class is for 8 to 14 year olds with little to no computer skills.
We have 3 teachers now, but we would like to expand our stable of teachers. Ideally, we'd have enough so that everyone only had to teach a class once a month. Classes are at 10 AM, Saturday mornings, and run for 1.5 hours.
Our teachers need to be patient and able to work with kids, but knowledge of Scratch isn't super important. Scratch is dirt simple if you understand programming, and our existing teachers have the cirriculum down to a science: one game is taught each class. Typically that's Moon Lander, a racing game, a basketball game, and other simple 2D designs.
If you are interested in volunteering in downtown Oakland to help teach kids to program, please email me at [email protected]
Fringe benefits include membership to the Museum, the chance to help some very cool kids, and the opportunity to join a team of teachers that all have massive, throbbing, genius programmer brains.