Software School 2012 • Advisory boards for NACS, Overton H.S. IT Academy, Stratford H.S. Gaming/Simulation Academy • Consulting with Williamson Co Schools to design a four year multi-track cross-disciplinary curriculum integrating Apps and Arts into regular h.s. curriculum for reboot of MCHS • contact: [email protected] 2 Saturday, March 8, 14
- fun is not a synonym for easy it ain’t math coding games is still coding get them hooked - there’s lots of time for the comp sci/abstract stuff later
for core content instruction flipped classroom and/or station rotation - see http://www.christenseninstitute.org/ blended-learning-model-definitions/ let kids self-pace as much as possible use multiple modalities - let’s kids explore how they best learn (so they can learn to learn)
very hard within the top-down mandated curriculum guidelines and approved course standards • K-12 education establishment is not familiar with and in some cases very uncomfortable with technology • School bureaucracy moves very slowly and has huge impedance mismatch with the pace of change in technology • Any programmer worth a darn can make two or three times more money coding than teaching 8 Saturday, March 8, 14