I’m trying to find the EDC, but I cannot find it.
Where is it? The Snap! Editor? Is it a Github thing? (Yes I know, odd thing to ask.)
I’m trying to find the EDC, but I cannot find it.
Where is it? The Snap! Editor? Is it a Github thing? (Yes I know, odd thing to ask.)
I’m not entirely certain what you mean by “find the EDC”, but there are a group of libraries that are EDC libraries (you can find them in the library dialogue).
Yeah that is what I meant. Your right, but where are the EDC libraries?
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What does EDC even mean?
Type of code in the library
You can scroll down to see it
What does it stand for?
I don’t know, it probably stands for something related to text and code. I was only asking where it is due to seeing it in another forum post, which was helpful to something I am currently working on. (This sounds realy confusing) ![]()
Education Development Center is a nonprofit education research center. It was first created as a home for the Physical Science Study Committee; I took PSSC Physics when I was in high school. It was not only a textbook but also a whole slew of supporting materials, including smaller books on particular topics and movies explaining some of the ideas. EDC also became famous, or infamous depending on your point of view, for a high school social science curriculum called “Man, A Course Of Study” (MACOS, not to be confused with macOS), which got in trouble in Congress because of the inclusion of people of color in its illustrations, almost causing Congress to defund the National Science Foundation, which had supported the MACOS project.
In the dim, dark past I spent a sabbatical semester at EDC working with their math group on a high school math curriculum (https://cmeproject.edc.org/) led by Al Cuoco. Down the hall my friend Paul Goldenberg, whom I knew from the MIT Logo Group in the even dimmer past, was leading an elementary school math curriculum (Think Math! – Elementary Math) project.
So when Dan Garcia and I started introducing high school teachers to the Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum, which we initially developed as a course for Berkeley undergraduates (https://cs10.org/sp26/), and the high school teachers started asking us questions we didn’t know how to answer, such as “Where’s the Scope and Sequence,” I insisted that we rope in the EDC team to get the benefit of their experience with bringing curricula to actual schools, and together we developed a separate version for high school (bjc.edc.org).
That’s how the EDC gang came to know about Snap!. When Paul later started a project to develop computer-based lessons for early childhood (K-2) education, his team used Snap!, and ended up modifying it for their needs, in ways Jens later endorsed for more widespread use. That’s where the EDC libraries came from.
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Oh, interesting history.
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Yeah, back then, even more than now, or at least more openly, Congress was full of people who weren’t convinced non-white people were fully human. Remembering how bad it was back then is the only thing that keeps me from despairing about how bad things are now. But let’s not turn this into a thread about politics.