Learning toys for free: Collaborative Educational Tools Development
Channel: CrispyScience
Date: 14/03/2013

This Webinar is part of the Open Education Week ( openeducationweek.org )

CrispyScience is announcing its initiative to develop educational computer interacting toys using MakeyMakey and Scratch. It will show case its first prototype design of an interactive game that demonstrates the Mendelian inheritance principles . The design and software will both be shared under the creative commons licence to the public. The end of webinar will have a brief  demonstration of how hardware and software design could be developed and shared by educators with NO programing background. MakeyMakey and Scratch are an open hardware and software combination of platforms that both started at MIT and made innovational and computational thinking accesable to kids all around the globe.



About:
Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Google, Iomega and MIT Media Lab research consortia.
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/About_Scratch

MakeyMakey project is based on Reearch at MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten.Created by Jay silver, Eric Rosenbaum, JoyLabz.
 makeymakey.com/about.php

Crispy Science is a Saudi Arabian startup focused on informal learning and free choice learning. It aims to exciting curiosity by enriching science and technology awareness and promotion through the design and implementation of science communication products, programs and platforms.
http://crispyscience.com/English/about-us/



Useful links :

Here is some useful links we mentioned during this webinar ...


What we mean by Open Education :
OpenEducationWeek.org 


To get your makeymakey
MakeyMakey.com

To get your makeymakey in Saudi Arabia
CrispyScience.com 

To see the designs follow our facebook notes ( Arabic to English translators needed ) :

https://www.facebook.com/CrispyScience/notes

More pictures of the fire triangle and genetics game deployment :

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.593510430682068.1073741825.145904182109364&type=1

https://www.facebook.com/CrispyScience/photos_albums


Drawdio and other cool stuff from JoyLabz : 

http://joylabz.com/


Google + page : +CrispyScience 

Tweet with @CrispyScience and @SamiO_o