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School pupils in Estonia is now taught logic and programming throughout the school. Experiments with Lego Mindstorms robots melon slicer has been a great success. melon slicer By Jesper Kildebogaard Wednesday 26 September 2012 - 10:44
When small Estonian Maarja and Miiko show up for first day of school, waiting not only hours in Estonian and mathematics, but also education in programming. Throughout the school, students should try out yourself to code.
It is at least plan a new project by the Estonian organization Progetiiger ('Tiger Spring') behind. Initially, the programming is not introduced as an official part of the school curriculum, but comes as finished packages that teachers are encouraged to use in teaching, says the head of Progetiiger, Ave Lauringson. melon slicer
"Children start to use technology at a very young age. A two-year-old today use a smartphone, and there will only be used more and more technology. We want to give them the meaning behind the use of a computer, by teaching them how to program. They need to understand the methodology behind a computer, "she says to Version2.
Initially, 30 out of Estonia's total of 550 schools in the project, which Progetiiger organization melon slicer provides courses for teachers, make software available and provide educational materials. Next year plan Ave Lauringson that there will be 100 schools melon slicer in the project, which began this school year.
Progetiiger has 15 years in the business and has constantly worked to use ICT in teaching. As the first country in the world got all schools in Estonia broadband connections, because of Progetiiger project, melon slicer and teachers have been prepared to use a computer. Now all the basics in place, and therefore one can now focus on ICT as a subject in itself.
In the early grades, children are to work with concepts like logic and basic programming through tools logo, Kudo Game Lab and Scratch. And it's not too early to teach children about how a computer actually works, believe Ave Lauringson.
"We melon slicer were actually encouraged by teachers to include the group of children 7-10 years of age. I've just been out for a 1st class where they started for the first time to the teaching of programming. There was a television crew too, and everyone was surprised at how quickly the kids got started, "she says.
In the older classes, from 5 to 9 class is an already successful project with Lego Mindstorms robots expanded with more programming, and students get started with HTML, PHP and Java. The aim is that they should be able to code a website and own programs.
At this school is the teaching of programming not put into the regular hours, but is offered as an elective and as a 'hobby clubs' at the school. Today there are mainly electives in music and dance, as with programming as an elective is also something for the technologically interested students.
Before all this can be done, the teachers dressed well. Progetiiger provide free courses at either a university or with the help of private IT companies. But that's not all offers, they say yes to. For example, Samsung melon slicer like to help with courses in Android development, but the organization has so far not chosen to make use of.
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The idea is not new: Logo was introduced to the teaching should be in small classes already in the 1970s, but despite various attempts at home, the idea died out again. Possibly because the program did not fit into the traditional divide between subject and possibly because it had limited hardware for teaching large classes.
The latter is no problem now: Adequate hardware to programming does not cost earth. For example. you can buy a Raspberry melon slicer Pi a few dog center dollars and put the keyboard, mouse and monitor on for about a thousand dollars more.
But you have to make sure that that is made good teaching. It's no good just saying "Here you go. Try you forward" to the students. One is to have specific problems to solve and given ways to do it. Otherwise, it's just something lal where students think that programming is done by trial and error without a clear goal.
For example, Problem 1 If we list all the natural numbers below 10 att are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9 The sum of disse multiples is 23 Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1,000.
I see basically three iOS apps with logo. Food Logo ',' Move the Turtle. Programming for kids' and 'LOGO'. All three for both iPhone as iPad (universal applications), prices 12-24 pounds. The latter only in French, the first two in English and not Danish, so the usefulness of them for small schoolchildren will probably melon slicer be limited.
I do not think the logo is the most suitable language. The idea of turtle graphics are OK (although the use of degrees of angles is probably too advanced for a first-class), but the rest of the language could be improved