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Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams

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Tshaka Armstrong
Tshaka Armstrong

This is a presentation I gave to educators, administrators and parents at an annual scholarship event for the LAUSD. **The presenter's notes are important, so be sure to check them out as they'll have all the links to the information presented in the slides!

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Preparing Our Children For Success @tshakaarmstrong www.digitalshepherds.com linkedin.com/in/tshakaarmstrong
Challenging Times
What Is Crowdfunding & How Does It Work?
kickstarter Indiegogo gofundme donorschoose • Each website/source has its own set of rules and procedures. • What do you have to offer that will compel people to donate to your cause/idea? • Get the children involved! Show Me The Money!!!1!!1!
• Have clear, easily communicated goals • Take them on the journey with you • Communicate often & outside your circles • Watch the plateaus • It's a SPRINT Move The Crowd!
Fund A Dance Project
Fund Enrichment
Fund The Literary Arts
Reward Your Backers
DonorsChoose.org
How DonorsChoose.org Works
Need Resources? Identify Research Cut Through The Noise
MathBlaster
Khan Academy
botlogic.us
Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams
Codespell
Minecraft
Hakitzu
Hakitzu
Tynker
This is a roadmap of resources, not a “hard and fast” step-by-step. I will update along the road as my son completes these steps and weed out any that are extraneous. Section 1 Learn Basic programming first. Start here: 1. The Command Line Crash Course: http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/ 2. (Do either one or the other, or all three) Learn Python The Hard Way: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/; PythonTurtle, Learning with PracApp: http://pythonturtle.org/; Invent Your Own Computer Games, More PracApp: http://inventwithpython.com/ 3. (Do “3a” concurrently or after “3.” Your choice.) Learn JavaScript (use either this or C# to program with the Unity engine below): http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript 3a. Gamification of JS Learning(I’ll update with a rating of these two games-one for ipad, the other Mac OS 5.1+): https://sites.google.com/a/eng.ucsd.edu/codespells/home/overview ; http://www.kuatostudios.com/games/hakitzu/ Section 2 Develop with Unity engine: Learn Game Dev: http://www.unity3dstudent.com/ More Learn Game Dev: “Basic Object Creation and Scripting” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMWhtKjUr10 See the whole playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEEAEA1E6B11B4DAE Develop A Video Game In A Year. For Children.
Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams
Yay! A Wikipedia definition: A hackerspace (also referred to as a hacklab, makerspace, or hackspace) is a community- operated physical space where people with common interests, often in computers, technology, science, digital art or electronic art, can meet, socialise and/or collaborate. DIY, Hackerspaces, Makerspaces
Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams
Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams
Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams
Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams
Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams
Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams
Preparing Our Children For Success @tshakaarmstrong www.digitalshepherds.com linkedin.com/in/tshakaarmstrong

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Preparing Our Children for Success: Finding Resources & Funding To Fuel Their Dreams

Editor's Notes

  1. Less money ($557-million shortfalls, millions in cuts, my own children's school lost title1 and 30k in $$ for athletics) Less resources- all businesses are doing more with less Bill Gates and crew coming in w/tech- it is not THE answer, but part of the equation Parent Trigger Laws- will we see an uptick in parental involvement in schools hardest hit? Some College Prep charters not prepping for college... just high school GPAs photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danmoyle/5634567317/
  2. photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/katerha/4647339052/
  3. less money- indiegogo and kickstarter (kids make a video detailing journey) How to win at kickstarter: All projects that reach 30% of their funding goal, meet the goal. Share your journey, your creative process, make your "audience" part of your project. -frequent updates on your project page (use twitter, constant contact and/or facebook to remind people) -people need to share your project to help get enough people to fund it, so be very specific about how you're going to ask people to share your campaign -your campaign will have lulls... prepare for them by having fresh content ready ahead of time. -reach out to your regional press, bloggers, patch.com Technical Steps and Stats -5-7 is the ideal number of reward tiers -most pledges will come from your $25 tier -$100 tier will make you the most money -check the fees. different platforms charge different fees and with some, you loose all the money if you don't reach your goal.
  4. less resources- identify, research, gamify (cut through the noise) codespell, hakitzu, tynker, khan, mathblaster, chess, minecraft
  5. http://www.mathblaster.com/
  6. https://www.khanacademy.org/
  7. http://botlogic.us/#sthash.1u8rCmAq.dpbs
  8. https://sites.google.com/a/eng.ucsd.edu/codespells/
  9. https://sites.google.com/a/eng.ucsd.edu/codespells/
  10. http://mojang.com/
  11. http://www.kuatostudios.com/games/hakitzu/ Giant robots, chess and learning to write computer code combine for one kick butt iPad/iPhone game!
  12. http://www.kuatostudios.com/games/hakitzu/ Giant robots, chess and learning to write computer code combine for one kick butt iPad/iPhone game!
  13. http://www.tynker.com Tynker is a new computing platform designed specifically to teach children computational thinking and programming skills in a fun and imaginative way. The cloud hosted system is now available to teachers, schools and districts.
  14. This is a roadmap of resources, not a “ hard and fast ” step-by-step. I will update along the road as my son completes these steps and weed out any that are extraneous. Section 1 Learn Basic programming first. Start here: 1. The Command Line Crash Course: http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/ 2. (Do either one or the other, or all three) Learn Python The Hard Way: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ ; PythonTurtle, Learning with PracApp: http://pythonturtle.org/ ; Invent Your Own Computer Games, More PracApp: http://inventwithpython.com/ 3. (Do “ 3a ” concurrently or after “ 3. ” Your choice.) Learn JavaScript (use either this or C# to program with the Unity engine below): http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/javascript 3a. Gamification of JS Learning(I ’ ll update with a rating of these two games-one for ipad, the other Mac OS 5.1+): https://sites.google.com/a/eng.ucsd.edu/codespells/home/overview ; http://www.kuatostudios.com/games/hakitzu/ Section 2 Develop with Unity engine: Learn Game Dev: http://www.unity3dstudent.com/ More Learn Game Dev: “ Basic Object Creation and Scripting ” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMWhtKjUr10 See the whole playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEEAEA1E6B11B4DAE
  15. http://www.raspberrypi.org/ http://www.alliedelec.com/lp/120626raso/
  16. http://lamakerspace.com/ http://blog.crashspace.org/
  17. el wire- wearable electronics at Crashspace
  18. wearable electronics meeting at Crashspace
  19. wearable electronics meeting at Crashspace
  20. battle bots robotics class at LA Makerspace
  21. battle bots robotics class at LA Makerspace
  22. battle bots robotics class at LA Makerspace