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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 at How to Teach Webcraft and Programming to Free-Rang

posted message: Many thanks to the people who took part in yesterday's online meeting. There was a lot of good discussion, and plenty of new ideas to chew on. I think the most important was how lucky we are: we can assume our learners are highly motivated and actually want to do the work, which isn't true of battery-farmed learners in traditional top-down classrooms. That may mean our models only work for a minority of people, but there are lots of people in that minority we can help. Based on those discussions, I've written up Task #3: people can work on personalized projects to bring to the group in a couple of weeks, or double back and look at what the "big ideas" are that they're trying to convey. We'll aim to have it done in a couple of weeks.

03 Feb 2012 via courses.p2pu.org

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Eric G Feb. 6, 2012, 7:16 p.m.

Thanks for organizing the meeting, Greg! Very productive discussion I thought. Do you, or does anyone, have a transcript of the chat?

Thanks,
Eric
Darlene Feb. 6, 2012, 9:57 p.m.
In Reply To: Eric G Feb. 6, 2012, 7:16 p.m.

Here's a link to my google doc with chat transcript:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B88_tFNs4ysmOWRjOTE3YzUtYzQxMC00MzNiLTgxNmQtODgwMmQ2MTg4MGM5

- Darlene
Greg Wilson Feb. 6, 2012, 10:51 p.m.
In Reply To: Darlene Feb. 6, 2012, 9:57 p.m.

Thanks very much, Darlene, that's a great help.
Eric G Feb. 7, 2012, 5:22 p.m.
In Reply To: Darlene Feb. 6, 2012, 9:57 p.m.

Thank you so much Darlene!
Luis Pedro Coelho Feb. 3, 2012, 11:12 a.m.

Part way through the meeting, someone walked into my office and wanted to talk to me. I thought it would be a 2 minute talk and I'd be right back to the chat, but it actually took so long that effectively left without saying anything to the group.

Sorry about that.