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

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Where it didn''t work, no local support stepped up. And then the fee for service is mostly school districts that contract with the Workshop for science enrichment/science instruction.

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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?