1. Computing is not about hardware but it's about software.
Software determines what you do and what you do is what you learn.
What do kids do with computers in school?
-Write a novel
write more, better, fan fiction, research?, writing for different media (podcasting)
-Share your knowledge
Wikipedia, breaking news, talk to authors, access to current info, publish to authentic audience
-Answer tough questions
Access to primary sources
-Make sense of data
Google Earth, mathematica, fathom, Inspire data
-Design a video game
(not just consume them)
www.microworlds.com
Giving people power of computers, facilitating people to make the computer do something it hasn't done before.
Does the child program the computer or the computer program the child
-Design a killer robot
MAking private thinking public. Using video as an assessment tool
-Lose weight
Less us more them-Can i give more agency to the learner?
-Direct a blockbuster
2 rules It should be shorter, it can be edited at least one more time
Mirrors the writing process
Exposure to different genre
-Compose a symphony
-Change the world
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