HW 10-2 Reflection on the readings

Chapter 6  "Making Today"

• Audience is a key element in motivating a person to write, and informs what they write as well. 
• Motivation increases when the product of student writing is attractive and valid by others.
• kids can and should produce poetry anthologies, magazines, and literary anthologies they can be proud of. they can be novelists
• low cost drawing tablets bring precision and tactile aspects of hand held tools to the creation of digital images. 
• kids can write a script, compose music, and design animated sets to be projected into their own musical theater productions,
• Radio production or podcasting is a great reason to write well and is powerful context for developing oral language skills. 
• music is such an important part of childhood and integral part of what it means to be human, but until recently its creation was reserved for the very few. 
• Squishy circuits edible conductive dough that you mold just like regular modeling clay, but with one important difference. 
• Conductive paint and conductive foil-
• mit media lab 
• The contemporary notion of play, imagination and games are potent tools for learning that exist in the world around us and have to become a part of our daily lives.
• the new culture of learning comprises of two elements, the first massive information network that provides almost unlimited access and resources to learn about anything. 
• the second is the bounds and structures environment that allows for unlimited agency to build and experiment with things within those boundaries.