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why does the discussion of constructivism jump us to programming (Papert, aside for the moment). there are some terrific possibilities in significantly more playful spaces, e.g., Minecraft and Arduinos: Minecraft goes from a sort of virtual Lego buiding experience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWJqCWetH-c&feature=relmfu ... to logic gates and advanced construction of working machines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB684ym3QY4 Arduinos involves very simple programming as well, but it is a more tangible interface, literally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xCY2K9kQz4 Lindax ps anyone going to Minecon in Vegas? On Oct 26, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Huw Lloyd wrote: >> >> I would be very interested to hear about various people's encounters with >> Scratch. Its a terrifically interesting enterprise that xmca o philes >> should >> a variety of equally interesting >> opinions about. >> >> mike >> >> > Scratch uses smalltalk. I found this page interesting: > > http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Squeak_Tutorial > > I've had a quick look at Scratch. It looks like a GUI language for > animating 'sprites'. Looks fun. > > I'm familiar with Alan Kay's Squeakland. I think the entry time (entry > level) is more significant with Squeakland -- the interface is more > abstract. Though this also gives much more depth of expression and > creation. > > The Squeakland depth seems like a good intermediary between Scratch and > vanilla smalltalk. I suspect kids would struggle to get beyond the > immediate limits of Scratch. Is there a meta-scratch too for adding their > own functions? Though perhaps the idea is that when they know what a > function they expand into other programming languages? > > Huw > > > >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Bill Kerr <billkerr@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The constructionist use of computers in schools as developed by Seymour >>> Papert and allies is still a fruitful one. The modern incarnation of the >>> software is scratch from MIT http://scratch.mit.edu/ but it remains true >>> that to understand its educational philosophy fully you need to read some >>> books. One idea is "hard play". Another is "low entry, high ceiling". >> This >>> was modified a little in scratch to "low floor, wide walls". >>> >>> Moreover, the one laptop per child (OLPC) as developed by Negroponte and >>> allies remains a worthwhile experiment to kick start learning for third >>> world children. >>> >>> Peter, all the link shows is that mediocre use of computers leads to >>> mediocre results. >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> >> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2011/10/26/schools-without-computers-by-choice-and-conviction-that-they-dont-help-kids/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog >>>> __________________________________________ >>>> _____ >>>> xmca mailing list >>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >>>> >>> __________________________________________ >>> _____ >>> xmca mailing list >>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >>> >> __________________________________________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca