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Short video shows Parallax products in the classroom

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  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    Hey there, 
    http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Coding+should+core+part+kids+education+tech+experts+Video/11081802/story.html

    Short video, shows the actual situation quite well. 
    Ken Gracey 

    Thanks for sharing that Ken!.
    BOE-Bots rule!

    Jim
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    I think this is totally brilliant. Introducing the young'ns to programming and electronics and what you can do with modern technology gets my full support. Or even just getting them curious as to how the world works. 
    However, links to news sites with a ton of auto playing advertising videos is a real pain.
  • mklrobomklrobo Posts: 420
    Awesome Idea! Parallax products are great for learning programming and coding. As
    technology increases, it is only logical that the new generation will incorporate
    coding as a "second" language. The basic stamp is my all time favorite, and I would be
    happy to see it taught as a standard project in the classroom. Parallax is awesome!  :)
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2015-07-09 18:26
    mklrobo,"As technology increases, it is only logical that the new generation will incorporate coding as a 'second' language."
    Yeah. That's what we thought back in 1980! And what Allen Kay thought some years before that.

    Kids were all over their C64's and Sinclair Spectrums at the time. Many of them grew up to have notable careers in software engineering and such. Institutions like the BBC were much into bringing computing and programming to the young.
    Then it all went dead for a few decades. As we got overrun by easy to use Windows and Mac computers. Then games consoles. Then smart phones and tabs. Games and social media were in, actually thinking about how these machines were created and worked was out. 

    Projects like the Raspberry Pi were born out of this idea to get kids off ready made solutions and stimulate their curiosity about programming.
    I love it that Parallax is, and always has been, tackling the problem at the lower level of micro-controllers and real world interfacing. 
    They have a bit of a challenge now as the Arduino now dominates  the landscape that the STAMPs occupied. 
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