Letters to Science from Colombian Children and Youth
Last week I was invited to participate in the launch of the book “Letters to Science: Dear science, this is is how I know you..” (“Cartas a la...
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Approaches to Digital Citizenship from Youth and Adults
Last November I was invited to participate in the conference “Cultura Social Media 2020” organized by the Escuela de Comunicaciones y Periodismo de ...
Ten Years of Scratch: Happy Scratch Day!
To see the Scratch Cat rolling through the floors of the MIT Media Lab does not happen quite often. However, for some especial events and adventures the orange ...
Imagination and STEM education: Playing Little Alchemy
This summer I have been working with KLRU-Austin PBS in a collaborative project with 18 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) summer camps. Part of ...
Parenting in the Digital Age: Discourses, Practices, and Imaginaries about Media Technologies
Last week I had the opportunity of presenting at the DML2015 conference (Equity by Design) a paper on Latino/Hispanic families that emerged from a chapter of my...
Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 2)
Children-Computer Symbiosis and the Reinvention of Childhood Since the 1950s, researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and computer sc...
Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 1)
The cover of BYTE magazine (the small systems journal) from November, 1976, is a color photograph of two children sat in front of what it seems to be a home com...