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Professor in STEM Education, La Trobe University

Children quickly took to the robot and developed a relationship with it. Screenshot Youtube

July 23, 2019

How a robot called Pink helped teach school children an Aboriginal language

Therese Keane, Swinburne University of Technology; Christina Chalmers, Queensland University of Technology, and Marie Bodén, The University of Queensland

Maitland Lutheran School, of 240 students in rural South Australia, found a way to teach children programming code and an old Aboriginal language. The answer was Pink, the robot.

Seymour Papert lectures on LOGO, computers and education. Shen-montpellier

August 25, 2016

This little‑known pioneering educator put coding in the classroom

Therese Keane, Swinburne University of Technology and Leon Sterling, Swinburne University of Technology

Seymour Papert’s vision has helped computers become widespread in education today, and gave birth to the movement to teach children to program.

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