ERIC Number: EJ811058
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Publication Date: 2008-Aug
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Scratch that: MIT's Mitchel Resnick Says Kids Should Do It for Themselves
Traylor, Scott
Technology & Learning, v29 n1 p27 Aug 2008
Mitchel Resnick is a researcher, inventor, and professor at MIT's Media Laboratory in Cambridge, MA, and the founder of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT. He is the lead innovator behind many cutting-edge learning technologies and projects for children, including the Computer Clubhouse, PicoCrickets, and the wildly successful consumer product, Lego Mindstorms. His latest innovations surround a product he calls Scratch, a digital creativity tool that helps facilitate expression, communication, concepts in interactivity and programming, presentation development, and community-based learning. This article presents an interview with Resnick about his thoughts on his latest project and what effect technology should have on teaching and learning.
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Hypermedia, Kindergarten, Creative Activities, Creative Development, Creativity, Interviews
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Kindergarten
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Language: English
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