Can we learn from playing games?

Super Stacker 2
http://www.k ongregate.com/games/inXile_Ent/super-stacker-2
Try Super Stacker 2 can you complete the 10 Easy stacks?
Make your own stack, share it by copying the link into the blog comments. 

Learn to Fly
http://www.thegamehomepage.com/play/learn-to-fly/

When the glider is pointing upward what happens to speed and altitude?
What is the maximum speed you can achieve at Stage 5?
How high can you go?
When the glider is flying level what happens?  

Setting up a Raspberry Pi

edX 11.132x Design and Development of Educational Technology - Week 4.

Activity 1 -  Pair Project 
For this assignment we have to partner up and do a collaborative mini project together.
My buddy for this is Eli from California. I have set up the page below so we can add ideas and findings on the fly. We have some others joining in so I hope they can find the link soon..
Collaboration page : http://padlet.com/jrobson/raspberrypi

So far I have found and watch the setup video below. When I get my Pi I will use this setup. Eli may chose a different operating system. We will see.

Getting started with NOOBS from Raspberry Pi Foundation on Vimeo.

Getting Scratch Jnr started in your classroom

DevTech  have created a brilliant website to get teachers and students started with Scratch Jnr. 
Teachers start here: http://www.scratchjr.org/teach.html 

Who Created ScratchJr?

ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Developmental Technologies (DevTech) Research Group at theEliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University (led by Marina Umaschi Bers, with contributions from Louise Flannery, Elizabeth Kazakoff, Amanda Strawhacker, and Dylan Portelance), the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab (led by Mitchel Resnick, with contributions from Tim Mickel, Champika Fernando, Natalie Rusk, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Chris Graves), and the Playful Invention Company (led by Paula Bontá and Brian Silverman, with contributions from Jack Geddes and Adrian Gabriel).

What's a MOOC?

Perseverance + Determination = Grit = Success

ScratchJr Curriculum Development Video

Exploring Learning with Scratch Junior

Published on Jan 26, 2014

ScratchJr is a developmentally appropriate programming language for children 5 to 7 years old. Children can create their own animated stories, interactive collages and games. ScratchJr is the product of a collaboration between the DevTech Research Group at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, directed by Prof. Marina Bers, and the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab directed by Prof. Mitch Resnick. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), the ScratchJr iPad app is planned for release in early 2014. Learn more here: http://scratchjr.org/at Tufts University, directed by Prof. Marina Bers, and the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab directed by Prof. Mitch Resnick. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), the ScratchJr iPad app is planned for release in early 2014. Learn more here: http://scratchjr.org/

TED-Ed launches an interactive periodic table with a video for every element

From TED-Ed:
"If you’ve ever taken a chemistry class, you know that memorizing all of the elements and understanding their properties can be difficult! To help provide a study aid, TED-Ed collaborated with Brady Haran, best known for his YouTube channel Numberphile and his extensive video coverage of the periodic table, to create a clickable periodic table with videos on every element."

Click around the table »