Designing and Running a Game Camp for Middle Schoolers
Designing and implementing learning experiences for youth has been one of the most rewarding activities I have been able to do during my time as a researcher fo...
Tag: learning
Got Literacy?
“Literacy” is one of the English language words that has become more contested and opaque due to its spawning across diverse fields. Attached to dif...
Neighborhood and City Learning : Spinning Catraca Livre
During the summer I lived in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2010, I became a regular visitor of the website CatracaLivre (Free Turnstile). The site helped me a lot to or...
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...
Situating the NML skills in SCRATCH
Last July I attended to the SCRATCH@MIT conference that took place at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts. People from all over the world met during t...