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  Low floors, high ceilings, wide walls are the principles of tool development espoused by Professor Mitchel Resinck and his colleagues in the Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, where Scratch and Octostudio are being developed. They use the metaphor of a programming tool as a room. First, the threshold is low …

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On September 24, a remote workshop was held at the Ehime General Education Center’s “Komadori Classroom,” an educational support classroom. This time, we challenged students to make computer-operated toys by combining programmable batteries, blocks, and craft materials. Each time, we get to watch the students’ activities closely through the remote and learn many things from …

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On September 14th, for the first time in three and a half years, we held a face-to-face workshop at the Hamagin Space Science Center in Yokohama. I recall that the last time we held the workshop was with a face shield. This time, we used Octostudio, a programming tool for smartphones released in October 2023 …

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On August 30, we held a workshop on making moving toys using programmable batteries at the Sinno Children’s Club (Minato-ku, Tokyo). It has been a year since we held our first remote workshop here last summer. Over the past year, we have gradually improved the equipment and materials used for the workshop, based on the …

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On August 9, we held our third workshop on making moving toys using programmable batteries at an after-school day service in Kanazawa. The workshop was scheduled to start at 10:00 a.m., but when we connected remotely at 9:30 a.m., the work had already been completed. It seemed that some of the kids had already started …

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On August 2, we participated in a workshop for children held at Panasonic Center Tokyo with members of the project subject “Creative Learning Design. It has been 3 years since I have attended a face-to-face workshop for children. It’s been a long time so far😅. This time, elementary school children will experience making light objects …

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In September, a programming class using PICO Cricket will be held in a special needs classroom in Hachioji City. First, we held a trial session for teachers. During the 90-minute hands-on session, we showed six teachers how to use PICO Cricket and how to program, after having them look at actual works created by their …

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