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Dr. Cynthia Solomon Cool pictures at: http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r/tasman_turtle_page.htm from bill_r Great article on the History of Logo. “If Seymour Papert is the Father of Educational Computing, then Cynthia Soiomon is the Mother of
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about 1 month
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Ron Teitelbaum
So what are you doing this summer? Dear Students, Now it is your turn! You will have to register in our website first [1], put there some information, show interest for the projects and contact the project mentors. After the registration step you will get all the mentors information in order to contact them. By [...]
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about 1 month
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Ron Teitelbaum
Using Smalltalk Scratch to teach young kids engineering. See girls encouraging girls to get into engineering. See a scratch demo, a Lego Doggie, a blinking pillow, hair lights, a door alarm, backpack break lights and turn signals, then spread the word and follow GirlsForRaspberryPi Technology for everyone.
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about 1 month
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Ron Teitelbaum
Hi everybody (and sorry if you receive multiple copies), It’s been a while since our last version but we’re proud to announce a new release of Physical Etoys. You can download it from here: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/
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about 1 month
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Ron Teitelbaum
From BetaNews: (see full article here: What does the future hold for Pi) BetaNews: What does the future hold for the Pi — new versions? Liz Upton: The Foundation’s committed to making sure that we don’t suddenly up-sticks and change the platform under people’s feet: the open community has been very good to us, and [...]
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about 1 month
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Ron Teitelbaum
Don’t miss the new Etoys book: http://wiki.squeakland.org/index.php/LearningWithEtoysI3. Etoys is: an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system a free
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2 months
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Ron Teitelbaum
Tim Rowledge announced: Squeak 4.0 & 4.4 packages now available for RISC OS (on Raspberry Pi for example) at http://squeakvm.org/riscos
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2 months
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Ron Teitelbaum
From Bert: I like a slightly different proof even better, because it doesn’t need to rotate the shapes:
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2 months
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Ron Teitelbaum
Casey mentioned: Speaking of Pythagoras, Alan Kay demos a visual proof for the theorem that’s super easy for just about anyone to understand right away using Etoys in his TED talk, which is worth a look:
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2 months
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Ron Teitelbaum
Bert posted a youtube video as a response to a newbie question: For her third language she chose Squeak, since she knew that Scratch was written in it. I would like to have her write the “Hello Pythagoras” program using Morphic objects, in a visually appealing way. So far I have had some trouble finding [...]
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