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When we organize workshops for kids, we always try to support playground-style play. We provide various structures to help kids get started. For a LEGO robotics workshop, for example, we’ll usually suggest a theme for the workshop, like “Underwater Adventure” or “Interactive Garden,” to help spark ideas and encourage collaboration among workshop participants. We’ll also show sample mechanisms that demonstrate different types of motion and provide a sense of what’s possible. But we feel it’s important for kids in the workshop to come up with their own ideas and plans. In an Interactive Garden workshop, for example, a child might imagine, then create, a robotic flower that closes its petals when something approaches. We want kids to experience the challenges and joys of turning their own ideas into projects. That’s the essence of playground-style play.
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a career with a vision will get you a distance proportional to n, while no vision will get you only the distance . In a sense, the main difference between those who go far and those who do not is some people have a vision and the others do not and therefore can only react to the current events as they happen.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
“Yeah,” I said, “I believed in Santa until kindergarten, when the other kids started talking. Then I realized Santa couldn’t get to all those homes in one night.” “Your intelligence did not change at the moment you realized that Santa Claus was a harmless fantasy. Your math and verbal skills stayed the same, but your awareness increased. You were suddenly aware that stories from credible sources—in this case your parents—could be completely made up. And from the moment of that realization, you could never see the world the same way because your awareness of reality changed.”
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