• The Sounds of Pink Floyd, Daft Punk and James Brown, Expressed in Flying Paint | Collage of Arts and Sciences

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• MIT technology trailblazer is a critic of computerized learning | Hechinger Report

  “MIT technology trailblazer is a critic of computerized learning
  By Jill Barshay

  Mitchel Resnick is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. His research group is best known for inventing two blockbuster educational technologies: the programmable bricks used in the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits and Scratch, a computer programming language that allows children to create and share interactive stories, games and animations. The Hechinger Report talked to him about whether technology is changing education for better or worse.”

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• Why L.A. Students Hacked Into iPads: District Is ‘Locking Us Out’ | MindShift

  “Why L.A. Students Hacked Into iPads: District Is ‘Locking Us Out’
  Tina Barseghian | September 27, 2013

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  By Sam H. Sanders

  Los Angeles Unified School District started issuing iPads to its students this school year, as part of a $30 million deal with Apple. The rollout is in the first of three phases, and ultimately, the goal is to distribute more than 600,000 devices.

  But less than a week after getting their iPads, almost 200 of the districts’ high school students found a way to bypass software blocks on the devices that limit what websites the students can use.

  Roosevelt High School in East LA has the most offenders. Earlier this week, Mayra Najera, a high school senior, told NPR that she hasn’t hacked her school-issued iPad just yet, but that some classmates have offered to do it for her.”

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• The Psychology of Video Games | Why Do Color Coded Clues in Level Design Work?

  “Why Do Color Coded Clues in Level Design Work?
  by Jamie Madigan

  One day I was out for a run along what in SimCity would be considered a Low Density Street –a light traffic thoroughfare on to which several residential zones connect. As I approached one such intersection, a guy in a truck pulled up. We looked right at each other through the driver’s side window and he didn’t pull forward, so I was pretty sure I had the go-ahead to step out in front of the truck and go on my way. I even gave him the little “thank you” wave.

  Imagine my surprise, then, when right as I was starting to trot out in front of the truck, he steps on the gas and I literally have to jump back to avoid getting hit. I barely made it, and had just enough time to slap his window as he passed by and shout a few choice curses I had recently picked up on Xbox Live. He flinched back in surprise, like he was shocked to see me appear out of nowhere despite the fact that he had looked right at me and I had waved to him a couple of seconds earlier. “

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