Thursday, January 14, 2021

MIT's Computer Clubhouse


In the ’Computer as a Paintbrush: Technology, Play, and Creative Society’ chapter in the book Play=Learning (2006), Mitchel Resnick  invites us to imagine the computer as a paintbrush. With this in mind, we can start with a simple game called ‘find the odd one out’. Computer, paintbrush, television. Which one does not belong? You might have said paintbrush right away. Can all three ideas be linked together somehow? The more creative of us may say nowadays both computers and even televisions can be interactive interfaces through which, as a paintbrush, act as medium for creative action. How about another one? IT, ghetto, lost youth. Now this one is a bit heavier. IT seems not to belong. Is there any way we can link computer skills to the words ghetto or lost youth? This task is a bit more challenging even if we are very creative thinkers.

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