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Kids coding app Tynker expands to Android and adds game-making mode | Technology
Education technology startup Tynker is expanding to Android, after attracting more than 8.8 million children to computer programming courses through its website and iPad app. The company has launched its Android tablet app on the Google Play app store, including a new mode – also available in the iPad version – for children to create their own games. Tynker is one of several firms whose apps' visual programming interfaces are aiming to help children take their first coding steps, with rivals including fellow US company Hopscotch, and British startup Kuato Studios, with its Hakitzu Elite app. Until today, Tynker's iPad app focused on a series of exercises where children learn programming concepts including functions, subroutines and conditional logic by solving puzzles. It is available in a free version where parents buy the different puzzle packs as in-app purchases, as well as a premium version aimed at schools, where the packs are included in a single upfront price.
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Teach Coding in the Classroom: Resources from ISTE '14
I was super excited to attend Hack Education (originally called “EdubloggerCon”), an all-day unconference held the Friday before the formal start of ISTE 2014. This interactive day of learning, now in its eighth year, was touted to me as the event to attend in Atlanta, and it did not disappoint. The informal, small-group conversations were inclusive and welcoming. The "rule of two feet" meant that if you needed to move, you were encouraged. And session topics were diverse -- on the schedule were discussions about maker education, augmented reality, design thinking, game-based learning, coding in the classroom, digital storytelling, and many, many more! In an attempt to heed Dave Guymon’s call to share the ISTE learning (see his blog post on Getting Smart, "Don’t Leave Your Learning Behind: What To Do Now That #ISTE2014 Is Over"), here are some resources discussed by a group of elementary and secondary educators during a morning session on coding in the classroom. Some Final Notes
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Met Museum Open Access Makes 375,000 Pieces Available for Free
Claude Monet, Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899) Renowned for its comprehensive collection of work that captures “5,000 years of art spanning all cultures and time periods,” New York City’s world famous Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently announced that 375,000 of its pieces in the public domain are now available without restrictions. As an update to a similar 2014 initiative, the new policy, called Open Access, allows individuals to easily access the images and use them for “any purpose, including commercial and noncommercial use, free of charge and without requiring permission from the Museum.” The Met Museum has executed the new policy in collaboration with Creative Commons, a non-profit that aims to promote the legal sharing and distribution of information, ideas, and images through its free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. You can access the unrestricted images through the Met’s website. Vincent Van Gogh, Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (1877) German, Armor (ca. 1520)
