Using MinecraftEdu to Teach Digital Citizenship

By Ron Houtman, on November 21st, 2012%

Here’s an interesting article from Fast Company about how one school is using MincecraftEDU to help teach digital citizenship skills to their students.  Check out the short video on how the classroom works and some thoughts behind why using Minecraft is helpful in the learning process.

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Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle

By Ron Houtman, on March 4th, 2012%

I stumbled upon this great talk given by Bret Victor at the 2012 Canadian University Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC) called Inventing on Principle.  Bret talks about how computers should do the programming for us, and to quote him from the video below:

If we write code on a computer, why do we simulate what the . . . → Read More: Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle

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