OK, this, or at least part of this, is the world of Scratch, a concept advanced by Mitchel Resnick and his colleagues. The blocks are available ready-made for kids, who in turn can arrange them (visually) to create larger functioning wholes. It is also the way I have always thought of learning objects, at least, before the publishing industry got a hold of them and made them like bits of a textbook. Scratch will be written in Squeak, an open-source implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language. I had always thought (and still think) they should be written in a form of XML (and to that end have been following developments in o:XML for the last year or so.
CRLFStill. Scratch is what I've always looked for in learning objects. Building-block programming. Programmable manipulation of rich media. Deep shareability. Seamless integration with the physical world. Support for multiple languages. And not a learning outcome or multiple-choice test in sight. And I have alwaqys thought of RSS and similar formats - aqnd the RSS content network, with associated formats, as being the medium in which a Scratch-type language would be spoken. By students to students.
CRLFVia Will Richardson, who offers more discussion and links.
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