On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 15:03, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 1) The given title is misleading, in my opinion its subtitle would be much > more > representative: "Enabling students [by] example-driven teaching".
Hi again, Sorry for replying to myself, but I want to correct something wrong that I wrote above. The actual subtitle of the presentation is "Enabling students over example-driven teaching" and I think the intendend meaning of that is "Enabling students [is better than] example-driven teaching". Also I forgot to mention that part of my motivation for writing is some things Alan wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 20:59, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor@python.org> wrote: > > In the UK many schools use the RaspberryPi project to teach robots to > kids as part of their Technology courses. The programming is picked up > by osmosis on an as-needed basis. The upside is that it's a lot of fun > and gets kids used to the concepts of hardware and software working in > unison. The downside is that they learn a lot of bad coding habits and > don't understand the theoretical underpinnings of either the hardware or > software. But as a way to get them hooked it works well . On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 at 21:07, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor@python.org> wrote: > > I'm not a professional or trained teacher but over > the last 30 years or so I've been involved in classes > teaching everything from 11 years to 70+ years old > students. I've always, without fail, found that some > students (say 10-20% of a class) just don't get > programming. It seems to me that some folks just > don't have their brains wired the right way. It > doesn't matter what tools or languages you use, it > even happens with graphical tools like flow charts. > Some people just don't understand the concepts of > logical flow and problem decomposition. > > You can, of course, force feed these folks to some > extent and they will pick up the basics with a > struggle but they will never be able to create > any significant body of code on their own. I'm > sure psychologists etc will have an explanation > for this but I've given up trying to explain it, > I now just accept that some people don't think > that way. I believe the video presentation addresses exactly these points. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
