{"id":10541,"date":"2016-05-18T20:13:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T20:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/scratch-google-next-generation-of-programming\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T20:13:26","slug":"scratch-google-next-generation-of-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/scratch-google-next-generation-of-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch + Google = Next Generation of Programming Blocks for Kids \u2014 MIT MEDIA LAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/medium.com\/mit-media-lab\/scratch-google-next-generation-of-programming-blocks-for-kids-5f377ec9ff0'>Scratch + Google = Next Generation of Programming Blocks for Kids \u2014 MIT MEDIA LAB<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>\u201cOur broader goal is not just to support Scratch itself, but to spread<br \/>\nthe Scratch approach to coding and learning. And that\u2019s why we\u2019re<br \/>\nannouncing today a new collaboration with Google, focused on helping<br \/>\nother developers create high-quality coding experiences for kids. As a<br \/>\nfirst step, we\u2019re working with Google to develop a new generation of<br \/>\ngraphical programming blocks, called <a href=\"http:\/\/scratch.mit.edu\/developers\">Scratch Blocks<\/a>,<br \/>\n which we hope will be adopted widely by developers of children\u2019s<br \/>\nproducts. The underlying code for Scratch Blocks will be made available<br \/>\nas open source, so that developers can easily integrate the blocks into<br \/>\napps, games, and toys that they are creating for kids.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scratch + Google = Next Generation of Programming Blocks for Kids \u2014 MIT MEDIA LAB \u201cOur broader goal is not just to support Scratch itself, but to spread the Scratch approach to coding and learning. And that\u2019s why we\u2019re announcing today a new collaboration with Google, focused on helping other developers create high-quality coding experiences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[264,42,262,179,265,241],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","tag-broadening-participation","tag-design","tag-inclusive-programming","tag-learning","tag-prgramming","tag-visual-programming","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2K1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}