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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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I first saw Scratch a few years ago, when I had friends working at the Media Lab, and at the time it seemed like a neat way for kids who were unfamiliar with programming to jump in and start designing their own interactive stories and games. In this post, a look at the intentional design choices that make ScratchR work. Does it work?

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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Dan was living in the Mission neighborhood, which at the time was very kid-dense, mostly first-generation immigrants, and Dan noticed that when he was messing around in his garage with physics gadgets, he could not keep the kids in his neighborhood out of his garage. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand.

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