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== Learning with Etoys - Imagine Invent Inspire == | == Learning with Etoys - Imagine Invent Inspire == | ||
| − | All school children should have the opportunity to engage with computers in the most meaningful way. Learning to think and using the computer to discover and work with powerful ideas is the knowledge of true value. The community of Etoys users is working toward the dream of having all students become computer literate. | + | All school children should have the opportunity to engage with computers in the most meaningful way. Learning to think and using the computer to discover and work with powerful ideas is the knowledge of true value. The community of Etoys users is working toward the dream of having all students become computer literate. This book only covers a small portion of those items. As you and your students learn some of the basic techniques, you will find more and more uses for them. The process of learning Etoys is just that, a process; the learning is on-going even though projects are begun and finished. Students will enjoy becoming experts and sharing their knowledge with others in the classroom. |
| − | + | Imagine this: A group of learners want to visualize what they '''I'''magine so they go to Etoys to '''I'''nvent their dreams and '''I'''nspire each other by building on their various Etoys projects. Today's learners need this kind of experience to be prepared for the future. | |
| − | + | You can download the .pdf and read it on every computer or print it. [http://www.mttcs.org/Projekte/Squeak/material/i3learning.pdf Click to download pdf-Version ] | |
| − | You can download the | + | You can also download the epub version, which is the format for the books activity on the Xo computer. [http://www.mttcs.org/Projekte/Squeak/material/i3learning.epub Click to download epub-Version ] |
| − | [http://www.mttcs.org/Projekte/Squeak/material/i3learning. | + | Or you can download the mobi version for the kindle devices and kindle reader software. [http://www.mttcs.org/Projekte/Squeak/material/i3learning.mobi Click to download mobi-Version ] |
| − | + | '''Book Sprint Experience''' | |
| − | + | The Squeakland Education team has been in existence since 2005 and we have established very strong bonds through our weekly online meetings and annual conferences. We started our own book sprint to write a reference manual and devoted a week of intense writing by several people from the Squeakland community. We filled the manual with a huge amount of valuable written and graphical material. However, we didn't completely finish both the content and the organization. So we were elated about our selection to come to the doc sprint at Google. Now that we have participated in writing a book Learning with Etoys: Imagine, Invent, Inspire, we see the value of being in the same physical space. Google provided a fantastic physical space. Adam Hyde from booki Floss Manuals was brilliant in focusing the participants on the process and monitoring our project. Allen Gunn directed an sizzling unconference, where we wrote up topics we thought were needed to be successful in the doc sprint and magically organized breakout sessions for the afternoon - fun fun fun. Thank you to Carol Smith for the great organization. The total experience was great. | |
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Latest revision as of 11:42, 21 December 2012
Learning with Etoys - Imagine Invent Inspire
All school children should have the opportunity to engage with computers in the most meaningful way. Learning to think and using the computer to discover and work with powerful ideas is the knowledge of true value. The community of Etoys users is working toward the dream of having all students become computer literate. This book only covers a small portion of those items. As you and your students learn some of the basic techniques, you will find more and more uses for them. The process of learning Etoys is just that, a process; the learning is on-going even though projects are begun and finished. Students will enjoy becoming experts and sharing their knowledge with others in the classroom.
Imagine this: A group of learners want to visualize what they Imagine so they go to Etoys to Invent their dreams and Inspire each other by building on their various Etoys projects. Today's learners need this kind of experience to be prepared for the future.
You can download the .pdf and read it on every computer or print it. Click to download pdf-Version
You can also download the epub version, which is the format for the books activity on the Xo computer. Click to download epub-Version
Or you can download the mobi version for the kindle devices and kindle reader software. Click to download mobi-Version
Book Sprint Experience
The Squeakland Education team has been in existence since 2005 and we have established very strong bonds through our weekly online meetings and annual conferences. We started our own book sprint to write a reference manual and devoted a week of intense writing by several people from the Squeakland community. We filled the manual with a huge amount of valuable written and graphical material. However, we didn't completely finish both the content and the organization. So we were elated about our selection to come to the doc sprint at Google. Now that we have participated in writing a book Learning with Etoys: Imagine, Invent, Inspire, we see the value of being in the same physical space. Google provided a fantastic physical space. Adam Hyde from booki Floss Manuals was brilliant in focusing the participants on the process and monitoring our project. Allen Gunn directed an sizzling unconference, where we wrote up topics we thought were needed to be successful in the doc sprint and magically organized breakout sessions for the afternoon - fun fun fun. Thank you to Carol Smith for the great organization. The total experience was great.
In the photograph from left to right: Stephen Thomas, Kathleen Smith, Rita Freudenberg, Avigail Snir, Randall Caton, and Kathleen Harness
