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What do we know about how novices learn webcraft and programming, and how can we apply that knowledge to teaching free-range learners?

Right now, people all over the world are learning how to write programs and create web sites, but for every one who is doing it in a classroom there are a dozen free-range learners. This group will explore how we, as mentors, can best help them. Topics will include:

What does research tell us about how people learn? Why are the demographics of programming so unbalanced? What best practices in instructional design are relevant to free-range learners? What skills do people need in order to bake their own web? How are grassroots groups trying to teach these things now? What's working and what isn't?

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Greg Wilson (organizer) Ethan White (participant) Heather Payne (participant) Laura Lyn  Plant (participant) Darlene (participant) Leigh Ann (participant) R.T. Lechow (participant) Luis Pedro Coelho (participant) lornajane (participant) Julie Pichon (participant) Neil Chue Hong (participant) David Felipe Camargo Polo (participant) Francesca (participant) MrSteve (participant) David Klappholz (participant) titaniumbones (participant) John Burk (participant) Ms. King (participant) Laura B (participant) Matthew (participant) Terri (participant) Rogelio Moreno (participant) harv (participant) jazz (participant) Ginster (participant) Duane Griffin (participant) Leopoldo Teixeira (participant) Eric G (participant) Gregory Brown (participant) Kerri (participant) Jaelle (participant) kgardnr (participant) Michelle Levesque (participant) Andrew Cox (participant) Jessy Kate Schingler (follower) Jessica McKellar (follower) Tim Topper (follower) stark (follower) Tavish Armstrong (follower) rahmin (follower) jdobry (follower) Karen Rustad (follower) André Roberge (follower) Kim Wilkens (follower) AJC (follower) krishnakumar (follower) Gonzalo (follower) Mark Guzdial (follower) robkim (follower) Adam Bachman (follower) Maxn (follower) Anderson Juhasc (follower) Paul Wilson (follower) Brigitte Jellinek (follower) audrey (follower) Mark F. (follower) LadyLeader (follower) Sumana Harihareswara (follower) Brylie Oxley (follower) Josh Greenberg (follower) Ian Mitchell (follower) wyattwang (follower) TR (follower) Sunny Lee (follower)

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  • Getting started (target date: Jan 20)
  • Who Are Your Learners? (target date: Jan 27)
  • Big Ideas / Individualized Projects
  • Why It's Hard and Why It's Unbalanced

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  • Reading List
  • Mark Guzdial: Computing Education
  • Audrey Watters: Hack Education
  • Software Carpentry
  • Programming for Biologists
  • Gregory Brown
  • Julie Pichon
  • Jaelle
  • Mr Steve
  • Laura B
  • Terri Ko
  • Leopoldo Teixeira
  • Neil Chue Hong
  • Andrew Cox
  • Heather Payne
  • Luis Pedro Coelho
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    Greg Wilson
    Greg Wilson at How to Teach Webcraft and Programming to Free-Rang
    posted message: The second part of this post (http://software-carpentry.org/2012/01/never-mind-the-content-what-about-the-format/), on what I'd like in a 21st Century replacement for PowerPoint, is probably not interesting to participants in this course, but I hope that the first part (which discusses what five different people want from instructional media) will be. Also, please try to wrap up your descriptions of your own prototypical learners soon, so that we can discuss them next week.
    27 Jan 2012 via courses.p2pu.org
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  • MrSteve   Jan. 28, 2012, 12:27 a.m.

    Let me know when you do the course on 21st Century replacement for PowerPoint.  I have been using Etoys as my Power Point replacement which I believe is one of the uses Alan Kay intended it for.  It also has a Scratch like interface (although not as refined and could use a few additions).

    Also I just found an interesting on-line Python tutor here which I think addresses some of your goals.  It allows learners to step through there code while visualizing what is going on inside the computer.  It also has a simple problem specificaion format that anyone could use and allows the specification of multiple tests that your code needs to pass.

    I'll avoid quoting Tufte (and sticking a fork in my eye), but will comment that its really the content that matters.  Having yet another great technological tool to help facilitate learning and make the production and dissemination of learning artifacts more productive would be a good thing. But IMNSHBOWO, what we really need even more is good content. Ie; good problems and ways to present them. Hopefully folks will be able to point to thier "favorite problems" so we can share and build up a good set of problems (and ways of presenting those problems) for learning.

    IMNSHBOWO (In My Not So Humble But Often Wrong Opinion)


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