alice-teacher What's the most effective way to teach Alice?

[Lori Fuller]

Alice educators <alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> on February 7, 2014
at 4:09 PM -0500 wrote:
>I am curious to hear from other middle/highschool teachers about how you
>teach with Alice.  Do you have kids work through lessons as self-study?
> Do you walk through the lessons with them step-by-step on a smart
>board?  Do they  go through a lesson and then create  a demonstrative
>world of what they have learned?    What have you found to be the most
>effective?

I am teaching Alice through our 9th grade Game Simulation Programming
Foundations course. It is actually recommended by the state on the
standards for the course.
I am taking from many resources at the moment to find lessons for the
students. We do use step-by-step lessons along with finding scenarios to
go along with the major concepts being presented in the step by step. I
usually try to add a twist to it. I do not have a smart board, but I do on
occasion use a digital projector. I have Camtasia to help with some of the
lessons, and I have used Screencast and Jing. Most of the time I put the
video lessons in an accessible server folder since they don't play well
over our network. 

The videos are very effective tools, however, I found the students relied
more on my step-by-step instructions more than them thinking through the
problems and figuring it out for themselves up to a point. I will be
working on that for next year. 

I am also up for suggestions and resources to help with teaching
programming using Alice. Next level course, I am planning on using Alice 3.



thanks,

Lori Fuller, M.Ed.
Monarch High School
Career Technology Department Head
Technology Coordinator
Asst. Athletic Director

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