Daily post 06/02/2012
June 2, 2012
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Snap! Build Your Own Blocks. Alpha
Another variation on the visual programming idea. By the time I need to teach this next year there should be several alternatives worth exploring.
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google-blockly – A visual programming language – Google Project Hosting
Similar to scratch, build programs visually without actually writing code. This might be a useful resource for developing basic programming skills in digital technologies
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Let’s Be Less Productive – NYTimes.com
More is not necessarily better. Quality trumps quantity and we need measures of the economy and progress based on something other than growth in a finite world.