Mitchel Resnick

Creative learning -- Projects -- Passion -- Peers -- Play -- Creative society

Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Lifelong Kindergarten

How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don't have leaders: they are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. And a surprising number of other systems, from termite colonies to traffic jams to economic systems, work the same decentralized way. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams describes innovative new computational tools that can qhelp people (even young children) explore the workings of such systems—and help them move beyond the centralized mindset.

Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams

Ken Robinson

Exploraciones Sobre Micromundos Masivamente Paralelos (Coleccion Limites de la Ciencia)

Tortugas, Termitas y Atascos de Trafico

Marina Umaschi Bers

ScratchJr is a free, introductory computer programming language that runs on iPads and Android tablets. Inspired by Scratch, the wildly popular programming language used by millions of children worldwide, ScratchJr helps even younger kids create their own playful animations, interactive stories, and dynamic games. The Official ScratchJr Book is the perfect companion to this free app and makes coding easy and fun for all. Kids learn to program by connecting blocks of code to make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. Each chapter includes several activities that build on one another, culminating in a fun final project. These hands-on activities help kids develop computational-thinking, problem-solving, and design skills. In each activity, you’ll find: *Step-by-step, easy-to-follow directions *Ways to connect the activity with literacy and math concepts *Tips for grown-ups and teachers *Creative challenges to take the learning further By the end of the book, kids will be ready for all sorts of new programming adventures!

Help Your Kids Learn to Code

The Official ScratchJr Book

Gamze Sart

Yaşam Boyu Anaokulu kitabıyla Mitchel Resnick öğrenme konusunda anaokulunun son bin yılın en büyük buluşu (Freobel, 1837) olduğunun altını çizmekte ve okura bunun nedenlerini ayrıntılı bir şekilde vermektedir. Bu noktada öğrenmenin nasıl olması gerektiğiyle ilgili tezini detaylandırarak sunan Resnick’e göre ilk koşul yaratıcı öğrenmedir. Yaratıcı öğrenme ise dört ilkeye dayanan bir süreçtir: (1) Projeler, (2) Tutku, (3) Akranlar ve (4) Oyun. Diğer taraftan teknolojinin gelişimi ile yaratıcılık arasındaki ilişkinin de anlatıldığı kitapta, teknolojinin çocukların yaratıcılığı üzerindeki etkileri örnekleriyle verilmektedir. Ücretsiz bir görsel programlama dili olan Scratch’i geliştiren, disiplinler arası bir araştırma laboratuvarı olan MIT Media Lab’de Medya Sanatları ve Bilimleri Programı’nın eş başkanı olan Resnick, Yaşam Boyu Anaokulu’nda yaratıcılığın ve oyunun önemini ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Gamze Sart editörlüğünde hazırlanmıştır.

Yaşam Boyu Anaokulu

Come i bambini. Immagina, crea, gioca e condividi. Coltivare la creatività con il Lifelong Kindergarten del MIT

Yasmin B. Kafai

The digital revolution necessitates, but also makes possible, radical changes in how and what we learn. This book describes a set of innovative educational research projects at the MIT Media Laboratory, illustrating how new computational technologies can transform our conceptions of learning, education, and knowledge. The book draws on real-world education experiments conducted in formal and informal contexts: from inner-city schools and university labs to neighborhoods and after-school clubhouses. The papers in this book are divided in four interrelated sections as follows: * Perspectives in Constructionism further develops the intellectual underpinnings of constructionist theory. This section looks closely at the role of perspective-taking in learning and discusses how both cognitive and affective processes play a central role in building connections between old and new knowledge. * Learning through Design analyzes the relationship between designing and learning, and discusses ways that design activities can provide personally meaningful contexts for learning. This section investigates how and why children can learn through the processes of constructing artifacts such as games, textile patterns, robots and interactive devices. * Learning in Communities focuses on the social aspects of constructionist learning, recognizing that how people learn is deeply influenced by the communities and cultures with which they interact. It examines the nature of learning in classroom, inner-city, and virtual communities. * Learning about Systems examines how students make sense of biological, technological, and mathematical systems. This section explores the conceptual and epistemological barriers to learning about feedback, self-organization, and probability, and it discusses new technological tools and activities that can help people develop new ways of thinking about these phenomena.

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