Teachers as Programmers? Get Real

[Mark Greenberg]

Now THIS looks worthwhile!  I'll have to check it out fully after 
graduation.  Thanks for sharing, Marty.

On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, at 09:01 AM, 
education-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

>> From their web site <http://genyes.com/>:
>  Generation Y (Gen Y) is the premier solution for schools looking
>  for a research-proven methodology designed to infuse technology
>  throughout the school. Students work with teachers to bring
>  effective technology into the classrooms and libraries. The
>  resulting collaboration provides the students with project-based
>  learning and the teachers with on-site, sustainable professional
>  development.
>
> The way it works in our school is that our Gen-Y class teaches
> students certain skills (like creating web pages, etc.) and hooks
> up these students with teachers who need things done (like web
> pages made) but don't know how to do them.  The kids have a
> project within which to exercise their new skills; the teachers
> get their projects done and even learn a little bit along the
> way.  Maybe we should look at incorporating RunRev into this....