Tag: education
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These Robots Want Homes
Mary at The Foundary Makerspace showed me a spectrum of robots that want homes. These are all programmable robots, and some are tablet controlled. Contact Mary Keene through The Foundary’s website or Mary’s Facebook page. We’ll start with the classroom robot kit made for programming with SolidWorks. It has a programming book as well. Next…
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Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Young minds understand coding and logical deduction easily. The fact that young children can manage such elaborate tasks should be no great surprise, given what we know about their knack for acquiring languages. Five-year-olds trump their elders at learning Spanish or Mandarin because young brains are better (so the theory goes) at formulating “procedural” memories—that…
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Great interview on hacker spaces, responsible disclosure (TCLP)
Thomas interviews Tiffany Rad in this episode of The Commandline Podcast. I appreciated this interview because, as a father, I am interested in all the ways I can expose my kids to learning opportunities, and while I might not end up with little net-running hellions, it sounds like public schools are often becoming less and…
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Apps for Healthy Kids
A bit ironic that computers are being used to keep kids fit, but concepts like how HFCS are bad and how veggies are good are very important to teach. Apps for Healthy Kids.
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