Alan November interviews Dr. Mitchel Resnick

Alan November interviews Dr. Mitchel Resnik, Proffessor MIT regarding the work he is doing with the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT. His goal is to make technology and ideas accessible to everybody. He uses the strategies that kindergartners use to achieve creative thinkers. They work well together because they are using collaborative, sharing, reflection, and playing to achieve their goals. So, Dr. Resnick is exchanging tools that young children play with and giving different tools to everyone to bccome creative thinkers. He developed various tools such as, Crickett Robotics, it is designed to teach art and technology. Insteadof using block to play with it is used to teach art and technology. Another tool is, Scratcher.org it is an interactive tool that is online. It can be used during school and after school; users can share their work with others. Instead of being calleld copying, it is called "borrowing" which is good instead of bad. You are allowed to "borrow", give credit to the owner, then you will expand on it. Computer Club House is another innovative method thatis used to forge creative thinking. It is used to create, learn and design new technology. If computers are unavailable, then cell phones are used to reach more and more communities. It can become a neighborhood news system to report sports, music and audio blogging. Finally, assessment. How do you assess students' work, do you use the traditional method (what we know)? Or do we look at how students get a better understanding, the design effort process, creativity and delivery? This is the question we must ask ourselves.