{"id":1299,"date":"2010-08-16T08:08:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2021-01-06T00:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T05:16:25","slug":"how-not-to-use-computers-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"How Not to Use Computers to Teach Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a title=\"Eurologo 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurologo2007.org\/proceedings\/content.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2007 EuroLogo Conference<\/a> in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, UC Berkeley Computer Science faculty member, <a title=\"Brian Harvey's web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~bh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Brian Harvey<\/a> made a stunning presentation entitled, &#8220;<strong>How Not to Use Computers to Teach Kids<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Not to Use Computers to Teach Kids\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/9822928?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/9822928\">How Not to Use Computers to Teach Kids<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2022346\">Gary Stager<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in the use of computers in education should watch this meticulous chronicle of a typical classroom &#8220;project,&#8221; complete with missteps, trivial computer use and questionable teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Brian is no opponent of computer-use in school. In fact, he has written four of the best computer science texts for young people ever AND has been a leader in the movement to teach children programming since the 1970s. He also created the free and open-source <a title=\"Berkeley Logo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~bh\/usermanual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UCB Logo<\/a> (Mac\/PC\/Linux) which is the basis for <a title=\"MSW Logo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.softronix.com\/logo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSW Logo.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also download PDF and HTML versions of Brian&#8217;s fantastic three-book series, <a title=\"Computer Science Logo Style\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~bh\/v1-toc2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Computer Science Logo-Style<\/a>, texts. A free version of Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.berkeley.edu\/%7Ebh\/ss-toc2.html\"> <cite>Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science<\/cite><\/a>, is also available.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, Brian has been excited about <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/\">Scratch<\/a>, a new drag-and-drop programming language for kids from MIT. He has also been working with Jens M\u00f6nig on <a href=\"http:\/\/byob.berkeley.edu\/\">BYOB 3<\/a>, (Now: <a href=\"http:\/\/snap.berkeley.edu\">SNAP!<\/a>) [2021 edit] \u00a0an extended version <!-- <A HREF=\"BYOB.pdf\" mce_HREF=\"BYOB.pdf\">with higher order functions<\/A>,<SUP>*<\/SUP> to --> with higher order functions,<sup>*<\/sup> to support an undergraduate-level introductory computer science course, and on <a href=\"http:\/\/inst.eecs.berkeley.edu\/%7Ecs10\">establishing such a course<\/a> at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2021 Update to previous paragraph: In addition to Brian Harvey designing the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/snap.berkeley.edu\">SNAP!<\/a>\u00a0programming language, he created the AP Computer Science Principles aligned curriculum, <a href=\"https:\/\/bjc.berkeley.edu\">Beauty and Joy of Computing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2007 EuroLogo Conference in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, UC Berkeley Computer Science faculty member, Dr. Brian Harvey made a stunning presentation entitled, &#8220;How Not &hellip; 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