Notes on
Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab
Monday, 6/25/2007, 12:30pm–1:30pm;
Lifelong Kindergarten :: MIT Media Lab
Gap of what students need and what is provided; consensus one key is to think and act creatively; eg book rist fo the creative class
Our work: close this gap; looking for models where help young people to act creatively; one area is kindergarten, especially traditional kinderg; it is a spiral:imagine-->create-->play-->share-->reflect-->imagine-->
we shift away from this approach as move up grades; becomes transmission model; mostly becuase we don't have right materials, that is where technology can extend kindergarten style to more advanced concepts;
we need low floor, high ceiling (get started easily but can get quite advanced,) also want wide walls allow flixibility to do things differently, their way
try to bring together art and technology to connect to math and science
New ways to use sensor and legos/mindstorms: sensors to detect blow out candle and ply music, pet kitten and meows; girl put sensor on bottom of boots to like lights different color based on speed of walking
Also new virtual environment; free software developed called scratch; visual programming gets away from syntax; put together blocks
can bring in pictures from internet and outside sounds
example of creating variables that change in the programming
share on website where upload scratch projects
http://scratch.mit.edu/
people build on each other's work
can get FAQ to embed java version of scratch project in a webpage
Now looking at changing sensors on legos/mindstorm with capability to collect data over time and graph
wokshop asked students advice for next students
start simple
work ont hings that you like
if no clue, fiddle around
find a friend to work with
okay to copy stuff
build take apart and rebuild
lots of things can go wrong, stick with it
shows intuitive understanding of creative leaning process;
Kindergarten becoming more like the rest of the school; we need to make the rest of school more like kindergarten
The Playful Invention Company: PicoCricket
RCX PicoBlocks
Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab
Monday, 6/25/2007, 12:30pm–1:30pm;
Lifelong Kindergarten :: MIT Media Lab
Gap of what students need and what is provided; consensus one key is to think and act creatively; eg book rist fo the creative class
Our work: close this gap; looking for models where help young people to act creatively; one area is kindergarten, especially traditional kinderg; it is a spiral:imagine-->create-->play-->share-->reflect-->imagine-->
we shift away from this approach as move up grades; becomes transmission model; mostly becuase we don't have right materials, that is where technology can extend kindergarten style to more advanced concepts;
we need low floor, high ceiling (get started easily but can get quite advanced,) also want wide walls allow flixibility to do things differently, their way
try to bring together art and technology to connect to math and science
New ways to use sensor and legos/mindstorms: sensors to detect blow out candle and ply music, pet kitten and meows; girl put sensor on bottom of boots to like lights different color based on speed of walking
Also new virtual environment; free software developed called scratch; visual programming gets away from syntax; put together blocks
can bring in pictures from internet and outside sounds
example of creating variables that change in the programming
share on website where upload scratch projects
http://scratch.mit.edu/
people build on each other's work
can get FAQ to embed java version of scratch project in a webpage
Now looking at changing sensors on legos/mindstorm with capability to collect data over time and graph
wokshop asked students advice for next students
start simple
work ont hings that you like
if no clue, fiddle around
find a friend to work with
okay to copy stuff
build take apart and rebuild
lots of things can go wrong, stick with it
shows intuitive understanding of creative leaning process;
Kindergarten becoming more like the rest of the school; we need to make the rest of school more like kindergarten
The Playful Invention Company: PicoCricket
RCX PicoBlocks
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