alice-teacher Common repository for shared resources

[Gamez, Enrique A (3012)]

I'm a simple home-schooling father trying to teach my kids Alice v3, so take my advice with a grain of salt.  I don't see what the concern is with having problem/exercise solutions available to students.  Don't they still have to follow certain steps to create the videos?  Don't you factor into exercises a certain amount of creativity which throws a wrench into standardized tests or solutions that could be copied?  Once kids are out of school:  life is an "open book test".  Some kids will always try to cheat their way through a class.  They will reap what they sow.  Just move on.  Life's too short.

I say, let information be free.  There are enough road blocks and undocumented features in Alice to stop even us teachers dead in our tracks (until Don is able to come to our rescue) without us making programming that much harder.

My 2 cents,
-e

From: Don Slater <dslater at andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:dslater at andrew.cmu.edu>>
Reply-To: Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012 7:40 PM
To: Alice Teachers <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu<mailto:alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>>
Subject: alice-teacher Common repository for shared resources

I have heard your request for a common location for shared resources, which is an excellent idea, and one that has been on my radar for some time.

I am now examining options as to how to best facilitate such a repository…

The question I want to ask the community: How secure do we want this resource to be? If this repository contains problem / exercise solutions, do we want to insure that students do not have access to it?

Have a good weekend,
Don Slater

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