Mitch Resnick - Learning from Scratch
Mitchel Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten research group developed the ideas and technologies underlying the LEGO Mindstorms robotic kits and the Scratch programming software used by millions of young people around the world. With these technologies, young people learn to design, create, experiment, and invent with new technologies, not merely browse, chat, and interact. Mitch's ideas and work are now at the centre of the debate about the curriculum for ICT in schools. Should children simply learn to use standard applications and games, or should they also have the opportunity to become creators?
Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference, London, January 26th, 2012
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Seeing children as learners and not children. Mitch continues to push for what is good for children/learners....Keep going Mitch. We need your voice.
It has been a fair while since i used scratch, it inspired to learn more (one) language and take Programming a lot further. Scratch really is the ultimate place to start coding abd understanding C structure (sort of)
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You're great Mitch! I love your work and LLK! Cheers!
Hola, seria genial contar con la traducción al español
Scratch, its great! Just have 2 comments, 1. Why not build on SmallTalk Squeak, (which came from MIT, and had very similar characteristics) rather than start from scratch with Java? 2. The ability to share, collaborate and 'fork'; that's what FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) is all about. Also research 0n these concepts were were done 1970's at MIT by Alan Kay (a founder of SmallTalk), Seymour Papert et al.. Too bad there was a reinvention of wheels? (pls correct me if I'm wrong)
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