The Weekly Squeak

Tag: Education

  • Imagine Invent Inspire – Etoys

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    Don’t miss the new Etoys book: http://wiki.squeakland.org/index.php/LearningWithEtoysI3.

    Etoys is:

    • an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways
    • a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system
    • a free software program that works on almost all personal computers

    All school children should have the opportunity to engage with computers in the most meaningful way. Learning to think and using the computer to discover and work with powerful ideas is the knowledge of true value. The community of Etoys users is working toward the dream of having all students become computer literate. This book only covers a small portion of those items. As you and your students learn some of the basic techniques, you will find more and more uses for them. The process of learning Etoys is just that, a process; the learning is on-going even though projects are begun and finished. Students will enjoy becoming experts and sharing their knowledge with others in the classroom.

    Imagine this: A group of learners want to visualize what they Imagine so they go to Etoys to Invent their dreams and Inspire each other by building on their various Etoys projects. Today’s learners need this kind of experience to be prepared for the future.

    For more information about Etoys visit www.squeakland.org

  • Feeding the Mouse some Pi

    Feeding the Mouse some Pi

    Tim Rowledge announced:
    Squeak 4.0 & 4.4 packages now available for RISC OS (on Raspberry Pi for example) at http://squeakvm.org/riscos

  • Pythagoras Animation in Etoys

    From Bert:

    I like a slightly different proof even better, because it doesn’t need to rotate the shapes:

  • Powerful Ideas

    Casey mentioned:

    Speaking of Pythagoras, Alan Kay demos a visual proof for the theorem that’s super easy for just about anyone to understand right away using Etoys in his TED talk, which is worth a look:

  • Pythagoras Formula in Squeak Etoys

    Bert posted a youtube video as a response to a newbie question:

    For her third language she chose Squeak, since she knew that Scratch was written in it. I would like to have her write the “Hello Pythagoras” program using Morphic objects, in a visually appealing way. So far I have had some trouble finding a tutorial that covers relevant information. I am sure I can figure this out by poking around long enough but if anyone has a pointer to documentation that might help, or a similar example, that would be great and much appreciated

    Here is Bert’s terrific answer!

  • Squeak Etoys – Students Build Their Own Games In Four Days

    The Software Architecture Group at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut (who have produced a great online Seaside tutorial and associated book) have recently been involved in using Etoys in the classroom. They kindly sent us this report about the experience of two of their members when introducing Squeak and Etoys to high school students.

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