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Scratch @ MIT 2010 Day 2 and 3

August 17, 2010

This is a picture of the the Event Space, the main presentation space. Besides the obviously very high ceiling, the room is laid out diagonally. It works. A simple idea. Brilliantly executed. The building really is designed (by Fumihiko Maki) with function in mind.
Loneliness is failed Solitude

I find the most value at the conference not [...]

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Scratch @ MIT 2010 Day 1

August 12, 2010

I have been looking forward to this Scratch conference. Last one was two years ago and it was a great event. This year it is held at the almost brand new Media Lab building. I had been there for various local events before in the evenings, but this is the first time I get to [...]

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3 year old is programming Scratch sprite

August 15, 2008

It happened. Once they discovered the drawing tool for sprite, they are all over drawing. “The Art Thing” the three year old calls it. She doodle some lines, and then want to make it move. I showed her once or twice that she needs the “flag” orange block and the “loop block” first, then stuff [...]

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Scratch Conference at MIT

August 3, 2008

Scratch is a programing language and environment designed by the MediaLab for used by young children. It is best described as a tool for making programmable media. It is used not just for programming as you know it, but for making games, telling stories, making dynamic artwork.

Education and Computer is an interest of mine. I [...]

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Scratch with Young Children

July 28, 2008

This is a first of a long series of post, documenting my “experiment” of introducing and using Scratch with two young kids, G, a four year old boy and M a three year old girl.
First introduction
Taking in all I have learnt from other educators, I first introduce the Scratch environment simply by showing them the [...]

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