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Building a Learning Community
Building a Learning Community gethopscotch: One of our goals at Hopscotch is to create a learning community where Hopscotchers can learn from, and be inspired by, others. Platforms like GitHub, Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube have shown us how powerful it is to enable members to learn from each other. Our release today (featured in the…
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wired: ScratchJr is a new iPad variation of the Scratch programming language, a tool created at MIT to help teach kids to code. The premise for both is the same: instead of text, Scratch uses interlocking colored blocks to mimic the logical structures and functions of a typical grown-up programming language. MORE: Finally, a Way to Teach…
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Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other. Donna J. Haraway…