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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
From the moment that humans began etching grooves into ancient wizard bones to mark the cycles of the moon, the process of encoding thought and experience into a vehicle of expression has influenced the changing nature of the self. Information technology tweaks our perceptions, communicates our picture of the world to one another, and constructs remarkable and sometimes insidious forms of control over the cultural stories that shape our sense of the world. The moment we invent a significant new device for communication—talking drums, papyrus scrolls, printed books, crystal sets, computers—we partially reconstruct the self and its world, creating new opportunities (and new traps) for thought, perception, and social experience.
TechGnosis
Erik Davis and Eugene Thacker
Goals and contingencies, as I’ve said, are important. But they exist in the future and the past, beyond the pale of the sensory realm. Practice, the path of mastery, exists only in the present. You can see it, hear it, smell it, feel it. To love the plateau is to love the eternal now, to enjoy the inevitable spurts of progress and the fruits of accomplishment, then serenely to accept the new plateau that waits just beyond them. To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.
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