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Miscellaneous: RODS & MODS (with Gustav) (Clip)

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00:03:57

For three days in February 2010, the Exploratorium showcased the innovations and outlaw aesthetics of custom computer culture. An outgrowth of the hacker community, personal computer modding was born from the need for speed and personal style.

Project: Miscellaneous | Browse All

Date: February 18, 2010
Format: Event
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): art

Keywords: rods, mods, modding, computers

Science Teaching Tips: The Hairs on My Head (Podcast)

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00:07:33

Children’s book author David Schwartz tells how big numbers got him excited about math when he was a kid.

Project: Teacher Institute Science Teaching Tips | Browse All

Date: May 13, 2009
Format: Interview
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s):

Keywords: math, kid, children

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David Schwartz’s Web site

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Exploratorium Miscellaneous Press Video and Audio: Exploratorium B-Roll Sample (Clip)

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00:00:35

This short preview clip of the larger B-Roll video has footage of the Exploratorium, inside and out, including scenes of children interacting with museum exhibits.

Project: Exploratorium Miscellaneous Press Video and Audio | Browse All

Date: January 10, 2005
Format: Exhibit
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science

Keywords: exploratorium, museum, children, exhibits

QuickTime: 272K

Memory: Dr. Alison Gopnik: How Children Remember (Webcast)

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1:48:57

Does your child remember the same things you do? Not necessarily. Children are as good or better than adults at remembering events, but have difficulty remembering how, when, and why they learn things. This has implications for issues from eyewitness testimony to recovered memories. Alison Gopnik is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Project: Memory | Browse All

Date: November 11, 1998
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Cognitive Science/Psychology

Keywords: cognition, language development, children's theories of mind, memory in children, child development, memory in babies, human development, autobiographical memory, emotional memory

Real: 16K

: Seymour Papert Lecture: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (Webcast)

Running Time:
1:29:49

Learn how to bridge the digital generation gap with America's foremost expert on kids and computers. Seymour Papert talks about the impact of the Digital Age on the family.

Project: Exploratorium Event CAM | Browse All

Date: October 23, 1996
Format: Interview
Category: Popular Culture
Subject(s): Sociology

Keywords: digital culture, cyberculture, new rules for the new economy, dumb power, knowledge economy, information society, connected family, connectedfamily.com, children and computers,

Real: 16K


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