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Learning Creative Learning

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Next week Mitch Resnick and the folks at the MIT Media Lab are kicking off another round of their terrific online course and community: Learning Creative Learning. I have already signed up and am excited to be joining other creative people around the world in this great learning and sharing community. Read the summary below… Continue reading Learning Creative Learning

Scratch and Friends

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Scratch, the drag-and-drop visual programming language from MIT, continues to grow in popularity among teachers and students. The statistics tracker on the Scratch website shows: 18,688,109 projects shared, 15,314,275 users registered, 97,400,962 comments posted, 3,069,067 studios created Students are creating, sharing, and remixing Scratch projects…and universities are remixing Scratch itself, building and sharing new flavors of… Continue reading Scratch and Friends

ECIS TID Committee Blog | At the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Code

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Please read my latest post on the ECIS TID Committee blog: Source: ECIS TID Committee Blog | At the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Code

Content Providers Old and New Partner to Make Searching Easier | MindShift

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It is no surprise that Creative Commons is at the heart of this one as they have been working with educators for years to locate and share educational resources. They have even partnered with MIT* to provide OpenCourseWare under a CC license and have been doing so for seven years. The “common metadata schema” mentioned… Continue reading Content Providers Old and New Partner to Make Searching Easier | MindShift