Simola. MIT technology trailblazer is a critic of computerized learning. By Jill Barshay Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. His research group is best known for inventing two blockbuster educational technologies: the programmable bricks used in the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits and Scratch, a computer programming language that allows children to create and share interactive stories, games and animations. The Hechinger Report talked to him about whether technology is changing education for better or worse.
Question: Millions of kids around the world are using your simplified computer programming language, Scratch. I once read that Scratch accounts for 10 percent of all visits to MIT websites. What’s worked and what hasn’t? Answer: One of the reasons for Scratch’s success is that it’s really easy to mix together different animations, photographs and graphics. Q: What ages are using it? Q: What are you working on now?
Proud to be leader in Smile EUN Project COP2 and to present my top 10 #curation tools to build #edtech20 #PLN 4 #leadershipday12. Twitter, I Love You. Marc Prensky's Weblog: Verbs vs. Nouns. E" in e-Learning Vanishing? Is the "e" in e-Learning, VANISHING? One of my habits it to look for shifts in the language of learning. What terms are organizations using more, using differently or even dropping. Lately, The MASIE Center has noticed a marked DECREASE in the use of "e" in e-Learning. Here are some indicators that we are tracking: Fewer "e"-Learning positions in organizations.
As we analyze several databases of learning professionals in the United States, we are seeing more than a 20% decrease in the number of titles that have e-Learning included. e-Learning Developers are now more likely to be called Learning Developers or Designers. Interestingly, terms like e-commerce and e-business have morphed as the e is dropped. Let's assume that all learning - as we go forward - will use a MIX of on-demand and live content, context and collaboration. Everywhere. About.