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Hello! We're Tinkertanker, a tech & education company in Singapore. Some of our projects: GuestDay, Tinkercademy, Get Hacking, ID Photoprint. Our partners include the Digital Maker Programme for micro:bit, the PlayMaker
Programme for pre-school technology learning, and PlayLeXue pre-school Chinese learning. Here, we post links to interesting news about tech and learning, and use ridiculous kaomoji wherever we can. (づ￣ ³￣)づ
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Hey, we're offering holiday camps, for only the second time in our 7 years as a programming education company! (Hashtag not sure how to run a business.) Sign a 7-15 year-old up so he or she can code in Python, or code a micro:bit, or operate LASERS.
LASERS, people, LASERS!
Hashtag lasers.
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Wires? Because wires are great. (Pretty sure the article has a better answer.)
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New blog post by our new intern Danielle on CS education in the early years, a perspective from the U.S. and here.
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We're halfway into 2017, so here's an update on the company blog about what we've been up to. Hint: it rhymes with "fidgetal faker fogramme".
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Not sure if someone got bored at the workshop table and made this, or if our parts are developing sentience
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Nice guide to learning front-end dev in 2017, though the sheer amount of stuff would be terrifying for newbies…
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Hey everyone! Our Get Hacking store now sells micro:bit, the powerful all-in-one micro-controller the BBC gave away in the UK to bring coding and making to a young audience.
Check out our custom Breakout Board, and our micro:bit page for tutorials and guides!
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This one introduces the company. Follow us there for longer, sillier, just-as-infrequently-updated pieces.
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Photos from Tech Saturday, a couple of weekends ago. Follow Tinkercademy on Instagram for more!
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We're ridiculously excited to announce that we've been approved by IMDA as a "Code for Fun" vendor for MOE schools in 2017-2018!
We'll be offering level-wide coding courses for primary and secondary schools on:
Arduino in Scratch or C, with our Freaduino library of plug-and-play parts. That means no breadboarding, and a variety of interesting and easy-to-use parts like our LCD display!
micro:bit in PXT or Python. Thousands of possibilities with our custom breakout board, enabling lots of additional sensors--the same ones as for our Arduino class!
FreaksCar in C, a new Arduino-powered robotics platform!
Teachers & school leaders: please get in touch, we'll be happy to come by for a demo and discussion! Or you can apply directly with the instructions at our excellent shortened URL, tk.sg/applyforfun.
Do you happen to enjoy looking at brochures that explain the above in greater detail in four A5 pages? Boy do we have a treat for you!!!
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Here's what's new at Tinkertanker HQ:
One of our Tinkercademy trainers, Sarah, has joined us as on an "apprenticeship" programme!
Sarah will be with us to learn and make stuff, and she's blogging about it at The Anything Apprentice.
The blog post above is about the "micro:pet" she built--it eats cans, and says encouraging things! We're convinced it will gain sentience and rise up and kill us all, but it seems harmless enough for now.
As such, we hastily put her on a plane to Shenzhen this last weekend, but that's where the Maker Faire took place, so now she has even more resources for her mad inventions. Agh!
If we don't post again in a month, send help.
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ALL CAPS JAVA IS BEST() JAVA GUYS
(At least we’ll always have Mr. Robot for some real on-screen coding.)
Source: Scott Hanselman on Twitter
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Awesome new Xcode feature A+++ will buy again
Source: Stu Sharpe on Twitter
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Google Education on teaching computational thinking to students in all subjects, not just in CS. See the course website for ideas and lesson plans.
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This is important and timely. Thanks Chee Aun for the hard work in making this world a better place.
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Teaching computational thinking is demanding, interdisciplinary and far more difficult than teaching coding.
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Teach a child to code and you give them a vocational skill whose usefulness will diminish as computers take over. Today, too many important people — those who will decide whether we and our children are prepared for the future — still do not seem to get it. Or worse, they knowingly are offering an easy but illusionary fix to the skills gap.
This feels like a bit of an over-simplification from someone who hasn’t stepped into the classroom to teach a bunch of kids who don’t actually know if they’re interested in learning the “computational thinking” he espouses. (We don't know if he's actually taught, but here's the author's LinkedIn profile.)
By all means, yes to computational thinking as the end-goal, but it’s awfully difficult to get there without starting off with some degree of “copy[ing] letters without understanding the meaning of the words”.
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