On Jan 29, 2008 2:38 PM, Brown, Henry, DoIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Take a look at scratch.mit.edu it is for kids to create and share cartoons. > Many of the pictures can be taken from the web.
Excellent. We should get some of this into TuxPaint. > I cannibalized a German cartoon about bees and flowers targeted to 1st > graders to build RNAi, Fusion, and Power Grid cartoons. > I am not an artist. > Just a Dad with kids who want to cannibalize the Scratch cartoons and learn > science in the process. > What we need is cartoons for developing nations kids. They need a graphic > approach to concepts. > In Jamaica, WI as a Peace Crops volunteer I helped build water treatment > plants, methane digestors, etc. > > But the biggest problem was HIV/AIDS. I did my thesis on mapping genomes > (Human and HIV) at Los Alamos. > My room mates were all physicists. > How to discuss the disease with young children? Through RNA the messaging > system for biology. > http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/GeneMachine/51835 > > But Physics is my son's passion. > Where to find basic physics cartoons that motivate kids? Make them? He > wanted fusion reactors? Larry Gonick, The Cartoon Guide to Physics See also Roy Doty, Wordless Workshop, which is about do-it-yourself projects around the home. His technique should be understood by everybody in this education space. > So I made them:http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/GeneMachine/34906 > Cartoons are the universal language. Look at Saturday morning (Pokeman, > Simpsons, etc.) > The kids of today are open to manipulating objects on the web (Runescape, > etc). > So lets give them an interactive learning env. Lets make learning cartoons > for kids. > OLPC could run Scratch, Alice, etc. > We just need armies of adults to build the cartoons. Kids will clone the > good ones. Schoolchildren will become the most important authors of learning materials, if permitted. > Henry Brown > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cell 795-3680 > office 505 827-2509 -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
