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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play (The MIT Press) Hardcover – August 25, 2017

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How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today's society.

In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten, learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the opposite: the rest of school (even the rest of life) should be more like kindergarten. To thrive in today's fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively―and the best way to do that is by focusing more on imagining, creating, playing, sharing, and reflecting, just as children do in traditional kindergartens.

Drawing on experiences from more than thirty years at MIT's Media Lab, Resnick discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning experiences. He tells stories of how children are programming their own games, stories, and inventions (for example, a diary security system, created by a twelve-year-old girl), and collaborating through remixing, crowdsourcing, and large-scale group projects (such as a Halloween-themed game called Night at Dreary Castle, produced by more than twenty kids scattered around the world). By providing young people with opportunities to work on projects, based on their passions, in collaboration with peers, in a playful spirit, we can help them prepare for a world where creative thinking is more important than ever before.

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Mitchel Resnick has long been an inspiration to those of us who study the roots of innovative thinking. Lifelong Kindergarten is not only essential reading for educators trying to cultivate 21st century skills in the classroom; it's also a vital resource for anyone―parents, entrepreneurs, artists―interested in the creative mind at work and at play.

―Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From and How We Got to Now

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Mitchel Resnick, an expert in educational technologies, is Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab.His research group develops the Scratch programming software and online community, the world's largest coding platform for kids. He has worked closely with the LEGO company on educational ideas and products, such as the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits, and he cofounded the Computer Clubhouse project, an international network of after-school learning centers for youth from low-income communities.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press (August 25, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262037297
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262037297
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.38 x 0.75 x 8 inches

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Mitchel Resnick (@mres), Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Lab, develops new technologies and activities to engage people (especially children) in creative learning experiences. His Lifelong Kindergarten research group develops the Scratch programming software and online community, the world’s largest coding platform for kids. His group also collaborates with the LEGO company on the development of new educational ideas and products, including the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kits. Resnick co-founded the Computer Clubhouse project, an international network of 100 after-school learning centers, where youth from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies. Resnick earned an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton, and a Masters and PhD degrees in computer science from MIT. He was awarded the McGraw Prize in Education in 2011 and the AACE EdMedia Pioneer Award in 2013.

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Thomas

interesting, unconventional way of thinking about the way kids learn

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2022

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I read this one for a book club at work. The main idea here is that today's world needs creative (not conventional) thinking, which requires different, more creative methods of learning. While there were a lot of good ideas here, plus some real-life stories from people who had success with this way of learning, I did grow weary of hearing about the MIT lab, scratch, and logo after the tenth time or so. The author has clearly devoted his life to this, and that's good, but he lays it on pretty thick. While I'm on board with the concept, I'm not sure how much I can personally use this book and its ideas (I don't have kids and I'm not a teacher) - but there's solid value here for those who can more directly apply this stuff.

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peter pan

Good book for parents

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2017

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Mitcheal Resnick's book attract me most about his ideas in HOW to make a kid creative. I mostly agree with his points and I believe these should be the guideline for education, not only for kids, but adults as well.

I did not grate it as 5 stars because of all his samples are among Scratch, Clubhouse and Lego. I expect more stories around the world, even around the MIT Lab, such as their studies about Kids interactive with AI technology. I hope his next book will bring us more insight about AI influence on kids education as a lifelong study agent.

Any way, this is a very good book for parents to read.

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Scientific Maker

it's a nice short summary of where they are coming from

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2017

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This is a very brief book that looks at some of the philosophy behind MIT's long-running projects in hands-on learning for kids. If you already work in this space and know the group well, it's a nice short summary of where they are coming from. . If you are a tech developer, you will find the interspersed case study of the development of Scratch interesting, although it would have been good if there had been more discussion of results. In short, a good readable summary of philosophy with a few nuggets of detail, but given less than 5 stars because it was a little more breezy than I had hoped.

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Zac Chase

If you know Resnick, this is for you

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2018

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Sometimes, I struggle reading Mitch’s work because of his style and tone. He’s a man wound up in wonderful ideas and possibilities. Sometimes, this gives the book a feeling of being a step and a half removed from classroom teachers new to this kind of thinking. This is not a primer, and I didn’t want to be. Building on his years of work with Scratch, Resnick brings forward the tectonic views of Seymour Papert, and gives them new breath and perspective. I enjoyed this book. I enjoyed the perspective, and I enjoyed the inclusion of the voices shaped by these practices.

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Tim L. Cornelius

Excellent book. Many good ideas to use in life.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2022

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Used this product to learn more about project based learning.

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Patrick Ferrell

Creating positive environments for learners

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2018

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Inspirational book about creativity and play. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of references to Scratch (the programming language), and this book made me think about the importance of the collaborative online community of Scratch users - something I've never really appreciated in the past.
There are sections titled "In Their Own Voices" which are mini-interviews. I wasn't as impressed by those - I would have preferred to hear more of Resnick's stories about Projects, Passion, Peers and Play from his own experiences.

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Brendan

We need Lifelong Kindergarten

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2018

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Great book on the need for shifting our education model towards cultivating creativity and away from memorization. Obviously this book is highly relevant if you work in education or have a younger child, but this is also relevant if you have an interest in corporate culture. Lifelong Kindergarten has definitely given me some ideas about how companies can do a better job at creating an environment of lifelong learning.

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Great book with interesting ideas about the significance of being ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2017

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Great book with interesting ideas about the significance of being curious about learning. Most of the examples were primary or secondary, so I had trouble imagining how it would be applied at the college level with specific curriculum concepts that need to be envisioned and learned. I teach philosophy, so I didn't see a direct connect beyond engaging the student to their potential.

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A. A. Green

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 28, 2018

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Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

I met with Mitch Resnick while visiting the MIT Media Lab in October 2008. This inspiring book relates the development of (and children's creative uses of) Scratch, LEGO MINDSTORMS and LEGO WeDo - all of which originated in the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT. This is STEM education at its very best!

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Erik

Amazing book. Beautiful message.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2019

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If you are interested in the future of education do please read this book.
This books not only gives the reader tips on how to foster creativity. But it's also filled with inspirational passages -stories about kids around the world who saw an opportunity to change their education, and took it.

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Alistair

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 25, 2018

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I read this, then read it again straight after. If you're interested in how children learn, both generally and particularly through coding, this is an exceptional read.

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Stanton

An inspiring book on how to develop and retain creativity

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 22, 2020

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As the father of Scratch and a co-founder of Computer Clubhouse, Mitchel Resnick reflects his experience in those two projects. The spiral process of image, create, play, share and reflect is illustrated using the 4P approach. No matter parents and educators, students and learners, or designers and developers, everyone can learn something from reading this book.

Definitely the reading is rewarding. It is a great book!

BJ7

libro fondamentale riguardo alla creatività al giorno d'oggi

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on November 25, 2017

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Giusto due citazioni per stimolare la curiosità verso il libro, lettura fondamentale per ogni educatore, insegnante, changemaker nell'ambito education:
An investment in interest always pays off with the best knowledge.

Ee need to make the rest of school (indeed, the rest of life) more like kindergarten.

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