Teaching python (programming) to children

[John Roth]

"Sheila King" <usenet at thinkspot.net> wrote in message
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> A little bit ago, I was standing in the kitchen making my breakfast,
> thinking about this discussion, and what I would write in reply to
you.
> And as I stood watching the water boil and the toast toast, my
> 13-year-old daughter said to me, "What are you doing, Mom?". And after
> giving an obvious reply, I said, "I'm thinking about this discussion
I'm
> having with someone on the Internet about the 'right way' to teach."
And
> she said, "There is no 'right way' to teach". So I asked her what she
> meant by that, and she said, "Well, not everyone learns the same way.
> Some people learn best by seeing things, and others learn best by
> hearing things ..." and so on. (I do think that the public school she
> attends is rather unusual, in that they do educate the students, even
in
> elementary school, about different learning modalities, and try to
help
> the students recognize their own learning strengths and how to find
> methods to help them best learn.)

Reminds me of my NLP teachers training many years ago, and
how to put a lesson plan together so it appealed to all modalities.

(Not how to teach NLP - how to use NLP in teaching.)

John Roth