Ninja-Geeks Bogota,

Let's keep in touch.

Colombia World University and School will emerge here ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ... in Spanish and as a wiki ... and for free-to-students' online university and high school degrees in Spanish and other main languages there.

Robotics -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics

Best regards, Scott

- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor

- World University and School

- http://worlduniversityandschool.org

- 415 480 4577

- http://scottmacleod.com

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.

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Cindy and Felicia,

9 - 12th grade computer workshops in group video?

Scott

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Very nice to meet you, Cindy, Berni and Felica,

Here are the notes from today's Scratch 3 Meet Up -

ScratchEd Meetup #2

[ San Francisco]

March 9, 2019 | 9:00am-12:00pm | #ScratchEdMeetup #SF | @scratchedteam

link to notes doc: http://bit.ly/SFscratchmeetupnotes2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vnhCsIfZjc1xvIctx0F3yHnnl1J_SslXo7_A00sU3b4/edit?usp=sharing.

And it looks like there are 42 International Baccalaureate schools in Colombia at different levels and for different ages - https://www.ibo.org/programmes/find-an-ib-school/?SearchFields.Country=CO WUaS is seeking to innovate and create an online I.B. high school degree around MIT OCW High School - https://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/ - beginning with MIT OCW in Spanish (college-level though) ... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/spanish/ ... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/translated-courses/ ... with classes for learning and playing (learning as play) in something like Google group video Hangouts.

Here's the Spanish Language wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Spanish_language - planned to develop in Spanish ...

Cindy, here's the Stanford event I mentioned - "Poesía de Abya Yala / Poetry from Abya Yala" ... https://events.stanford.edu/events/827/82719/ - and there are events there open to the public accessible from here - https://events.stanford.edu/today/ ... I'll keep you posted if I see something that might interest you.

Felicia, shall we explore setting up Skype-ing what you suggested - and then develop this into online workshops between schools - e.g. in Sacramento and in Bogota?

World Univ & Sch holds open Hangouts on Monday mornings at 10am if you're interested too - https://youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch.

Thank you, Brendan, so much for all you do! Google's CS efforts are amazing.

This autumn WUaS is seeking a matriculating online undergraduate class in English as we begin to get licensed and then accredit. Can you let Colombians know who might be interested in a 4 year online undergraduate MIT OCW-centric degree program in English - when we get our web site up and working? It would be great to get 10-20 English-speaking Colombians into our classes.

Regards, Scott

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

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Cindy Gonzalez

2:24 PM (6 hours ago)

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Hi Scott,

Nice to meeting you as well. Thanks for sharing these notes. Today’s event was amazing. We will be looking into these resources.

I hope we are able to work with for Colombian programs in the near future.

Best Regards,

Cindy Gonzalez

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

2:48 PM (5 hours ago)

to Irene, Cindy, Brendan, bejavago, felicia.heiler, gerencia

Hi Cindy,

Thanks very much for your email, and looking forward to exploring all of this further.

Here are 3 further relevant wiki subjects at World Univ & Sch, not yet in Spanish, but check out the MIT OCW (brainstorming-wise):

WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_International_Baccalaureate_Diploma_and_Programme

Programming -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Programming

Computer_Science -

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Computer_Science

FYI, I found these brief Revolutionary Lemon resources interesting re possible applications and range of Scratch 3 - https://scratch.mit.edu/users/revolutionarylemon/

Very nice to meet and talk with you all, (and to see you again Brendan - https://twitter.com/EduBrendan & Irene!). Are you on Twitter, Felicia, Cindy, Bernard, or Irene? :)

Best regards, Scott

- https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

3:00 PM (5 hours ago)

to Irene, Brendan, Felicia, Cindy, bejavago, gerencia

What are your Scratch Ed MIT and Harvard pages?

Mine are in a beginning stage:

- http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/user/39398

- https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ScottWorldUnivAndSch/

Cheers, Scott

Bernardo javier Valderrama Gonzalez

4:20 PM (4 hours ago)

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Scott, thanks.

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Ninja-Geeks Bogota :) and All,

At the end of this video he suggests building the MicroBit (with Scratch) into wood or Legos ... with many other good ideas (including uploading the Hex file to the MicroBit, a concept I didn't 'get' today), and some complements to our explorations throughout:

Scratch 3.0 and Micro:bit - Drive a vehicle with your Micro:bit - DIY game-controller -

https://youtu.be/i0C8ycEee1w

Building the MicroBit into Lego Robotics could suggest to me that matriculated high school students at World University and School, probably first in English, Spanish and Chinese, play with the MicroBit for as long as a term (16 weeks) ... with Scratch 3.0 ... and then possibly move on to We Do 2.0 or similar for home robotics, and potentially with Brick Street View (for Lego bricks) in Google Street View with time slider / Maps / Earth.

See too - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/ and https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/lego-wayfinder/overview/ ...

His Danish accent took some getting used to for me ...

Cindy and Bernardo, if we were to explore further developing online curricula in Spanish for Colombians at high school and university levels at World University and School (and for younger students at Ninja-Geeks), based on MIT OCW and with a Scratch and Lego focus, it would be your understanding of the cultures of learning ... and re best students ... who might then head to the US for university at Stanford or MIT / Harvard or to Oxbridge, for example ... that would a remarkable 'value' you could add to this project.

Thanks so much as well, Cindy and Bernardo, Felicia, Brendan and Irene!

Cheers, Scott

I blog some about Scratch and Lego Robotics under the https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/robotics and 'programming' labels, only pretty much in English so far, and blogged about our ScratchEd Meet-ing here today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/03/victoria-amazonica-ninja-geeks-bogota.html ...

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With World University and School's MIT, Wikipedia and Google-centricity, am hoping that Scratch 3 with Google's TensorFlow (rather than other platforms for machine learning) for machine learning with Lego Robotics will emerge ...

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Bernardo, and All,

Did you come all the way from Bogota, Colombia, to attend this Scratch Ed Meet Up, in part? Thank you, thank you, thank you, if you did ... it's quite an honor for us that you would have traveled so far for this. Here's a related Tweet:

Thank you Bernardo Javier Valderrama Gonzalez @bejavago483 & Cindy.T.Gonzalez for coming from Bogota, Colombia & attending the #ScratchEdMeetup #unconference @scratch @ScratchEdTeam #scratchinpractice #CSinSF #CSk8 https://twitter.com/billmarsland/status/1104435353723654145 at SF's Exploratorium @WorldUnivAndSch ~ (Languages-World Univ:

Thank you Bernardo Javier Valderrama Gonzalez @bejavago483 & Cindy.T.Gonzalez for coming from Bogota, Colombia & attending the #ScratchEdMeetup #unconference @scratch @ScratchEdTeam #scratchinpractice #CSinSF #CSk8 https://t.co/9QQnEwSFT7 at SF's Exploratorium @WorldUnivAndSch ~
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 10, 2019

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1104804524491857920)

And here's Micro:Bit with an English accent -

Introducing the BBC micro:bit - BBC Make It Digital

https://youtu.be/Wuza5WXiMkc - with many great ideas, and ending suggesting it could be a robot. One definition of a computer is that it's an input output device which runs programs, and Micro:Bit certainly fits this definition (e.g. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/how-computers-work2/v/khan-academy-and-codeorg-hardware-and-software), but a robot? One def of a robot "a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer" Apple Dictionary ... and I guess here ACTIONS could be the lights lighting up. :) So, MicroBit could be construed as a robot too, I'd think ... (I think of / define robots as physical machines that are programmable for action that includes movement ... where the MicroBit wouldn't be a robot by this definition ... oh well:).

While it looks like Scratch 3 may become a language of Colombia, am curious how we might add all the languages of Colombia to Scratch 3s language Add On / Extension -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Colombia and re both Google Translate / TensorFlow as well as Languages at WUaS ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ... in these languages.

All 7,097 known living languages are a focus for World Univ & Sch, and where anthropologists / linguists could travel around the world and in Google group video Hangouts do field work, and record more interesting usages of the smallest languages and all languages, etc.

Felicia, what was the name of the beautiful round little robot you got out, and shared with us? I'd like to learn further about it online.

Appreciating the "Creative Computing" book (newer edition) - http://creativecomputing.gse.harvard.edu/guide/download.html - I got in the raffle (second time I've gotten this book in that Exploratorium room - the first time being with Karen Brennan facilitating a Scratch Ed Workshop a few years ago) ... Appreciating one of its 4 principles - sharing - (& just recalled Mao's sharism idea in these regards - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharism ).

Friendly regards, Scott

In all 7,097 known living languages too, @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress Embarcadero SF: Was wanting yesterday to be able to slip my smartphone in digital mask (Cardboard?) & see great interactive history #AugmentedReality https://t.co/rXS0jmiODW & add via https://t.co/Zju4211PXw ~ https://t.co/pgU2NsGlXN
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 10, 2019