On Thursday afternoons, in the heart of the Beacon Hill Library in Seattle, you might find an animated group of youth on laptops designing parkour
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App Inventor: Block Based Programming
Product: MIT App Inventor is a free cloud-based tool that kids can use to create software applications for Android. App Inventor uses a block-based programming
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Minecraft Replay Mod: Create Your Own Minecraft Videos
Product: Replay Mod is a modification for Minecraft that allows you to record, replay, and share your gaming experiences. The videos are lightweight (even one-hour
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Twine: Create Your Own Stories and Games
Product: Twine is a free tool that allows kids to create interactive, nonlinear stories and games. You can create simple stories with Twine, then extend
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How Unschooling Families Leverage Digital Games and Connectivity
To many, unschooling is a radical approach that is practiced in the exotic outer rings of education. Its rejection of formal education in favor of
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Kids Learning and Inventing: JAM’s New Online Engineering Course
Product: Invent Your Own Machines (ages 9-14) Glows: A unique approach to online learning that is playful, social, and personalized. Grows: While the flexibility of
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Connected Camps Goes to Minefaire
Did you know that you can make a working calculator in Minecraft with redstone? Torches and repeaters can be combined to create binary signals with
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Sky’s the Limit: Just for Girls Online Summer Camps
Celebrating the Power of Girls’ Creativity We believe being a girl comes with special superpowers and our Just for Girls online summer camps are designed
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Beginning Coding Camp in Minecraft: The Fun Way to Learn to Code Online
The merits of teaching kids to learn how to code at an early age is well known. But learning to code can be hard. Finding
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littleBits Coding Kit Unboxed!
Product: littleBits Coding Kit Glows: Creatively engaging, versatile, fun to use and experiment with. Follow instructions or invent your own original devices! Grows: There are
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