I'm not a teacher, but Alan Kay and the fine folks at Viewpoints Research have been helping kids learn (K-12) for many years. They have created a wonderful scripting language on top of Squeak (derived from Smalltalk-80) called eToys. Many are using this around the world. You might get in touch with them.
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I'm not a teacher, but Alan Kay and the fine folks at Viewpoints Research have been helping kids learn (K-12) for many years. They have created a wonderful scripting language on top of Squeak (derived from Smalltalk-80) called eToys. Many are using this around the world. You might get in touch with them.
Here are the relevant links:
http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/about.html
http://squeakland.org/
http://www.squeak.org/ (to learn more about Squeak)
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