Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Alfred Thompson shares, "The people at the Lifelong Kindergarten Research group at MIT recently unveiled ScratchEd a new community site for educators who are using Scratch." Scratch was designed at MIT and, as described by Wikipedia, "has the goal of teaching programming concepts to children and teens and letting them create games, videos, and music." Unlike Squeak, on which it is based, Scratch is dynamic, allowing code to be changed while running, and hence, users to interact with it and see what happens.

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