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Re: [Phys-L] computer programming for kids


On 2013, Jun 26, , at 15:39, Ken Caviness <caviness@southern.edu> wrote:

Assigned student research projects (read websearches) were frustrating - on the first page of hits most sites blocked, so students wasted much time and became frustrated.

The prudes reign.




Without knowing all the ins and outs of the situation, I can still draw the moral: the school administration shouldn't just hand the iPads to the students. Technology without support is often no help at all.

KC


anyone "done" a study on the efficiency? i.e. the time spent on support (training the students and the IT people) is made up by the "learning" improvement w/ the computers?

bc for a long time thought computers were a step backwards on writing. He had a very small sloped learning curve.

p.s. Isn't the searching homework?