Social discussion of CS in K-12

["Reese, George Clifford" <reese AT illinois.edu>]

Some years ago there was a group in North Carolina that was developing Etoys extensions like this. We have not put much energy into getting them to use. I did ask one of the undergrads to give it a try a few years back. But it didn’t seem cost effective in terms of the amount of time to took to make progress.

 

Avigail may know more about this.

 

George

 

From: ctrl-shift-bounces AT lists.mste.illinois.edu [mailto:ctrl-shift-bounces AT lists.mste.illinois.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Schultz
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 7:19 AM
To: ctrl-shift AT lists.mste.illinois.edu
Subject: [Ctrl-Shift] "physical" etoys

 

Have any of you stumbled across a good hybrid of Legos and either eToys or Scratch (anything built on the Squeak platform)? I know there have been discussions about it on various forums, but not sure if we have played around with it locally or not. I am a big proponent of working with my hands (that's the way I learn), and I would love to "be a kid again" and witness the marriage of Legos and Scratch and share that unending fun with my kids and the students I work with.

 

Espeically with mobile apps and technology going the way it is, I would love to see a mobile app that can control this "physical etoy" as well. I know the technology is there, but is it accessible, yet?

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

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Charles Schultz