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| Author: | paulzolo [ Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Code Club |
Been asked if I'd consider running a Code Club at the wife's school. Basically teaching kids Scratch. Could be a laugh. Anyone else here doing this? |
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| Author: | big_D [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:06 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Code Club |
Don't know Scratch. I just did Best Practices in Component Orientated Software (Re-)Engineering with IBM Rational Rose and Java... :p |
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| Author: | TheFrenchun [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Code Club |
there's an EdX HavardX computing course using scratch starting this week. Scratch seems really vintage an terrible to me so I think I'll return to good old exercise books. |
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| Author: | EddArmitage [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Code Club |
I've a feeling Scratch was mentioned for people who'd never written code before to do over the summer prior to my first year of uni. Looks alright to me for what it is, but I can see it being particularly useful in that kind of environment. On a related note, I'm currently advising a school on how to teach GCSE/GCE Programming. |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Code Club |
This is a primary school, BTW. |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Code Club |
I've signed up to the newsletter. Might think about taking it further. |
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| Author: | EddArmitage [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:13 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Code Club | |||||||||
I thought it was, and hence I think it's pretty appropriate for those that have an interest. If it was mandatory I'd say it's probably more suitable for KS3, so KS2 as an optional thing is probably about right. |
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| Author: | steve74 [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:32 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Code Club | |||||||||
The first rule of Code Club is that you don't talk about Code Club.   #FAIL |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:30 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Code Club | ||||||||||||||||||
As a grounding for the future it sounds like a good idea. The reason they use Scratch is that it shows a code in a building block kind of way, and from what I have looked at it’s pretty similar to JavaScript. I think if they wanted you to do C# of Objective C, I’d not be considering it. Scratch is sued in some of the IT lessons anyway, so it’s not going to be completely alien to them. From what I can gather, you get given plans for what to do in each club session, so they really want someone who knows about the subject to go in and help the teacher (there has to be a teacher present, despite the CRB checks) run the thing. If I do do this, I may even take in some of my old computers and show them what computers were like when I was a child. hey, kids - here’s my ZX81! |
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