Secret Sauce of Successful Summer Camps
Mark Guzdial,
Mar 28, 2012
I spent four summers in all - two as camper, two as counsellor - at summer camp. One the one hand, a summer camp can have a Lord of the Flies aspect to it. On the other hand, the camps taught me to be at home in the outdoiors, to be self-reliant, to value challenge and adventure, and to learn from my surroundings. Now summer camps provide me with an alternative perspective on learning. But the same old lessons apply:
- First. Kids who come to computing summer camps aren’t interested in lectures. They want hands-on, project-based, discovery-driven learning opportunities.
- Second, use formative evaluation and iterative development.
I don't think it's such a secret (I dislike the phgrase 'secret sauce', which implies there's some special formula that can be captured and exclusively monetized).
- First. Kids who come to computing summer camps aren’t interested in lectures. They want hands-on, project-based, discovery-driven learning opportunities.
- Second, use formative evaluation and iterative development.
I don't think it's such a secret (I dislike the phgrase 'secret sauce', which implies there's some special formula that can be captured and exclusively monetized).
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