[BLACKBOX] news from Belarus

From: F.V.Tkachov <"F.V.Tkachov">
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:40:25 +0400

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Hello everyone,

A piece of good news:

BlackBox has been approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of
Belarus for use in schools to teach programming to kids of ages 11-17.
Here is the official page:
http://www.adu.by/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=770
They planned an experiment of 4 years, but after the first, teachers lined
up to join, so they just approved it.

There have been a considerable progress with spreading BlackBox in Russian
schools, too.

Helmut Zinn would recognize his Turtle on the photos in a series of
reports from the classes for 11-year olds I helped to conduct this Spring
(encouraged by the Belarus example):
http://www.inr.ac.ru/~info21/troitsklicej/vtorojetap1.htm

Just click on the links in the second line from the top to go through all
the reports. It's all in Russian of course, but there are some cute
photos, so you'll get an idea.

I can't even count the total number of students currently learning to
program with BlackBox in Khabarovsk, Tomsk, etc.: only in my hometown, two
groups in the local lyceum and two, in an influential IT-education
establishment -- the so-called Bytic (www.bytic.ru), plus a local college
is planning to convert their informatics classes to BB in the spring
semester.
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By the way, is there anyone (except ETHZ and Harro von Lavergne(?)) who is
currently teaching to program with any version of Oberon (including
BlackBox)?

Cheers
Fyodor

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