Madeline,
I had a great time playing with the eToys tutorial yesterday and thinking about how we could accomplish each challenge with only one script. Any time you tell a computer how to do something, you are learning math and some problem solving skills that will be good for you in life as well as school.
I’m […]
Entries Tagged as 'Follow up'
eToys is Fun. Lots More to Learn
April 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Cool Stuff · Follow up · eToys
TurtleArt House Design Contest
March 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Be on the lookout for the TurtleArt turtle that Madeline sent out into the stratosphere. (Madeline thinks that the turtle is probably in Germany.) We learned today that using the biggest numbers we can think of isn’t always the best idea in a computer.Today we met for our second session. We changed the […]
Tags: Cool Stuff · Follow up · Learning
Thanks for a Great First Meeting
February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
We had an excellent first meeting today, I thought. I enjoyed getting a chance to see how far Madeline’s come with the XO in just a couple of weeks. Certainly, a little exploration can be a great teaching tool. I particularly enjoyed connecting our two XO’s together and shooting […]
