From New Scientist, a nice description of Scratch, a new programming environment in which kids create their own interactive computer games.
Lego robotics product designed to teach thinking skills to young children -- but for what percentage of kids is this developmentally appropriate?
Site of a Cambridge-based non-profit that provides a web-based programming environment and project guides for engineering and microcontroller projects for high school students.
Lego products based on the work of Seymour Papert
People laughed at Seymour Papert in the sixties when he talked about children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity. The idea of an inexpensive personal computer was then science fiction. But Papert was conducting serious research in his capacity as a professor at MIT. This research led to many firsts. It was in his laboratory that children first had the chance to use the computer to write and to make graphics. The Logo programming language was created there, as were the first children?s toys with built-in computation. The Logo Foundation was created to inform people about Logo and to support them in their use of Logo-based software for learning and teaching.
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From New Scientist, a nice description of Scratch, a new programming environment in which kids create their own interactive computer games.
Lego robotics product designed to teach thinking skills to young children -- but for what percentage of kids is this developmentally appropriate?
Site of a Cambridge-based non-profit that provides a web-based programming environment and project guides for engineering and microcontroller projects for high school students.
Lego products based on the work of Seymour Papert
People laughed at Seymour Papert in the sixties when he talked about children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity. The idea of an inexpensive personal computer was then science fiction. But Papert was conducting serious research in his capacity as a professor at MIT. This research led to many firsts. It was in his laboratory that children first had the chance to use the computer to write and to make graphics. The Logo programming language was created there, as were the first children?s toys with built-in computation. The Logo Foundation was created to inform people about Logo and to support them in their use of Logo-based software for learning and teaching.
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