Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

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. On most user-generated content sites, the vast majority of content is barely viewed.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

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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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

What happens to the surprises designers encountered, the interactive that visitors loved, the bits that never seemed to work quite right? Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? Why is that?

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