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Join us for Dust or Magic Asilomar 2023
This affordable weekend retreat is for the creators of children’s media. From our tranquil meeting space just steps from the Pacific Ocean, you’ll build your own cookbook out of the primary “ingredients” of child development. You’ll meet each “chef” (e.g., Maslow, Montessori, Skinner, Smilansky, Piaget, Vygotsky and others) and you’ll see how their ingredients can be applied — or misused — in animated media, apps, video games, social media, toys and video). KNOWLEDGE YOU CAN TAKE BACK HOMEEach participant will create their own “cookbook” — a set of slides that can be used to take the ideas back home to share with their team. LEARN FROM THE BEST The faculty includes…
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Lessons from Asilomar
Buckleitner, W. 2013. Children’s Technology Review, June 2013, pages 5-7. Read in PDF format We were on hallowed scientific ground. I learned this from Max Whitby, the scientist-turned-app-developer, who was about to address the attendees of the Forth Annual Dust or Magic AppCamp on the Design of Children’s Interactive Media. Max told me that in the biotech field, Asilomar had become synonymous with a famous 1975 meeting of scientists who met at the dawn of DNA-related research. That meeting resulted in a set of guidelines that paved the way for future genetic research. It proved to the world that a community of people from diverse backgrounds could meet for a…
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Lessons from AppCamp 2012
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Lessons from AppCamp 2012
Dust or Magic AppCamp 2012 was the third in the post-iPad age. Fourteen bags of marshmallows generated 579 tweets, each captured by the data-loving Scott Traylor. For those of you who missed it make yourself a s’more and watch these videos. THE CHILDREN’S APP SPACE IS MATURING, BUT STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO • The “State of the App” panel at http://youtu.be/HzYaonRsd5E is a good place to start your tour of AppCamp. Don’t miss Robin Raskin’s comments about the cloud at 15:06 (See those sunburned cheeks? Robin managed to fit a Kayak ride in the Monterey kelp beds that morning). • Carley Schuler makes research fun with her examination…
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Lessons from Asilomar
