Aloha

Wireless Japan

As Docomo begins to roll out 3G, 4G planning efforts begin.

• palm.nifty.com
• It's a simple palm
• Wireless Japan

Teenage Gurls Rule the Web

Docomo phones are everywhere. They are as much a communication device as a social symbol.

• High-school girls rule Japan's telecom market
• Boom Planning

Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform

• 2001.08.07, Outrage as book hits Japan schools
• 2001.08.08, Japanese textbook office attacked
• 2001.08.10, Group claims responsibility for textbook bomb

video games as art

A series of articles from the New York Times, August 9, 2001.

• The Art World Starts to Pay Attention to Video Games
• The Space Age Game That Set the Stage
• Video Game Art Web Sites

pox

from Hasbro: POX is a computer virus game - wireless computer, game console, software, all for $25.

• Game Manufacturer Lets Kids Do the Marketing - New York Times Magazine, August 5, 2001. Meet the Alpha Pups who lead the kids.
• How to Play PoxHow to play Pox - New York Times Magazine, August 5, 2001

Bon Odori

• The Origins of the Nishimonai Bon Odor
• Shashima Elementary School Bon Festival

Online Environments

WebCafe - used at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Blackboard - based on work at Cornell University. Web Crossing - integrated community environment. Used in a 500 student CS course at UC Berkeley. WebCT - online course tools based on work at the University of British Columbia

Big Ideas : Computers and Learning

Mindstorms (Seymour Papert)

Mindstorms - Programmable Brick

• Lego Mindstorm and HP100 - handhelp programming for a brick.

  Logo

• UCBLogo Downloads - MIT Media Lab's Epistemology and Learning Group
• Microworlds - Logo site. A Demo Version is available.
• Lego / Logo - Electronic Bricks: Creating a Scienceland for Children
• Logo Writer - Japanese Logo and Children SIG.
• A Word for Modern Logo - Gary S. Stager, Pepperdine University, 1995-96
• LOGO as a Programming Language for Educational Applications - Jim Andris, Southern Illinois University.
• Logo-L Archives - at the Global School Network

  Seymour Papert

• 1998 - The Connected Family - Videos documenting Seymour Papert's tour across the country talking with people about his book The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap.
• 1993- The Children's Machine - Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer" - review by Elizabeth Murphy,

  Epistemology and Learning Group

• Epistemology and Learning Group at the MIT Media Lab explores how new technologies can enable new ways of thinking, learning, and designing. The group creates new "tools to think with" and explores how these tools can help bring about change in real-world settings, such as schools, museums, and under-served communities.