Teaching Computing with... Computers?(bogost.com)

9 pointsby pchristensen17 yıl önce2 comments

http://www.bogost.com/blog/teaching_computing_with_comput.shtml

3 comments

What, no comments? Both sides have some valid points. From the NSF point of view, it is hard to teach abstraction and they also want to develop teaching materials that don't rely on expensive and proprietary educational toys. Then again Bogost reasonably asks how you can expect kids to stick with the program when you move from the toy to a screen of code.

I wish he had explored his alternative ideas further (although the comments do pick up where he left off). Computer games can definitely be used to teach basic concepts, and indeed some very good games have used programming-type puzzles as part of the gameplay.

A kid-friendly programming interface, to me, could just be a skin on a full programming environment. As you would complete basic programming tasks, you could then unlock higher level features.

Allocator200817 yıl önce

hc17 yıl önce

this sounds like the "new math"... why not start young children with actual programming? programming is _easier_ and more intuitive than thinking abstractly about algorithms and compression