alice-teacher Suggestion For Video About Learning Technology Center

[Barnum, William]

Matjaz,

It sounds like you are doing great work. It's a shame that students' access
to technology and instruction can be the limiting factor.

Bill

On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:35 PM Matjaz Marussig <marussig at siol.net> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> it looks like we have a very similar idea. I started by gathering students
> remotely during the pandemic here in the EU. Now I have some Ukrainian kids
> online. Everyone is very enthusiastic, but they are technologically
> undernourished. They would like to do a lot with technology, but they don't
> get teachers who would teach with passion and understanding of
> children. Today we can unite ALL students around the world.
>
> However, video alone is not enough. We have to invest a lot of effort in
> persuading and advertising the idea. There are no problems with children,
> but with adults. It is very difficult to get sponsors, donors, and
> teachers. Today, technology is an extremely broad science, which is why
> most children approach technology spontaneously. But... it's only a matter
> of time before AI takes over everything.
>
> Matjaz
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 18:26, Barnum, William via alice-teachers <
> alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I had a suggestion for the Entertainment Technology Center, but I
>> don't know with whom to share it.
>>
>> Most high school students not only don't know what the Entertainment
>> Technology Center is but don't even know that people are doing the types of
>> things you do. If they did, they might be more likely to take a computer
>> science class in high school.
>>
>> When trying to attract potential students to take a computer science or
>> programming course, I sometimes show this *highly polished video about
>> CS-X from Northwestern <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNo_BVzNb28>*.
>> My goal is to get potential students thinking about all the diverse things
>> they can do with computer science, but it also has the potential to get
>> them thinking about Northwestern when the time comes.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNo_BVzNb28
>>
>> It would be awesome to have a conceptually similar video from the
>> Entertainment Technology Center. It would benefit me to get students with a
>> more artistic bend thinking about CS and make them aware of the ETC if and
>> when they consider a graduate program.
>>
>> Bill
>>
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