This is pretty awesome, from the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT.
“These days, kids interact with all kinds of dynamic things on screen but it is usually a one-way street – they are usually interacting with things that other people have created,” said Professor Resnick, who also invented Lego Mindstorms, a robotics toolkit often used in teaching.
“With Scratch we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting dynamic things on the computer.”
Here is the rest of the article, via BBC News.
I just downloaded the Mac installer, so I’ll poke around with it and report back eventually.
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