<img class="alignright wp-image-1043 size-full" src="http://www.scratch2015ams.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/solomon.png" alt="Cynthia Solomon" width="168" height="223" cheap jordan />Dr. Cynthia Solomon is a pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science and educational computing. Fifty years ago while at Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Cynthia, along with Seymour Papert and Wally Feurzeig created the first programming language for children, Logo (programming language). She was Vice President of R&D for Logo Computer Systems, Inc. when Apple Logo was developed and Cheap Jerseys was the Director of the prestigious Atari Cambridge Research Laboratory.
Solomon taught at Milton Academy for seven years. After that, she was the Technology Integration Coordinator at Monsignor Haddad Middle School in Needham, MA. Recently, Solomon directed the creation of educational materials for the One Laptop per Child Foundation.
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Together with Seymour Papert she wrote Twenty things to do with a computer. This 1971 text is still relevant and inspiring.
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Presenter(s): John Maloney, Jens Mönig, and Yoshiki Ohshima (US)
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Presenter(s): Bernat Romagosa (ES)
Summary: Snapi! is our home-brewed Snap! extension that targets APIs and OpenData. In this workshop we’ll learn how to access and make use of REST APIs from a Snap!-like environment, all this while explaining our experiences with getting kids to understand and play with APIs.
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Presenter(s): Stephen Howell, Scott Blackwell (IE)
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Type of participation: Talk
Presenter(s): Jens Mönig (CDG Labs), Brian Harvey (UC Berkeley) (DE)
Summary: The next version of Snap! will provide prototypal inheritance, letting students model cascading dynamic bindings for field-variables, custom blocks, sprite attributes and media. With this mechanism students can classify concrete behavioral strains into more abstract prototypes and turn these into powerful classes. Thus, Snap! will be able to support a rigorous introductory OOP curriculum.
Type of participation: Talk
Presenter(s): Wolfgang Slany (AT)
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Presenter(s): Angela Sofia Lombardo (IT)
Summary: I will share my experience as a learning support teacher, introducing Scratch Jr to a 5 years old kindergartener as a cognitive stimulation tool. This rapidly became an experience of empowering socialization between peers and expressing emotion through creativity.
Type of participation: Ignite
