ACAMIS 2025 Resources by Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager

• The Menu of Nutritious Computational Environments for Learning 
  • Turtle Art software link and resources
  • MakeCode
  • Turtlestitch
  • SNAP! software with Hummingbird or Finch blocks (use to program the Hummingbird Bit)
    • Firmware for using the micro:bit in a Hummingbird or Finch
• micro:bit one-hour challenges and radio tutorial
• Seymour Papert’s Eight Big Ideas Behind Constructionist Learning
• Constructive, Creative, Playful Computing Options for Children & Families
• Logo history, resources, & digital books
• The history of 1:1 personal computing in schools
• Program your own Gameboy
• Our favorite software high-tech tools, books, and resources for creative educators
• Creating a Finch microworld (for young learners) and Finch-related AI resources
• Using the micro:bit, Octostudio, microBlocks, and a programmable backpack in a project
• Fantastic new book, The Invent To Learn Guide to the micro:bit
  • Related resources
• Do you know the mother of educational technology?
• Wolfram Language and math resources, including videos
• Useful to the Point of Being Revolutionary: Introducing Wolfram Notebook Assistant by Stephen Wolfram (December 2024)
• Logo Overnight by Mitchel Resnick
  A collection of Logo programming challenges taking advantage of computing power and time.

• Collaborate with Gary Stager – bring Gary to your conference, school, or district
  • Learn more about Gary Stager, Ph.D. (bio)
  • Gary Stager’s blog, Stager-to-Go
  • Books by Creative Educators for Creative Educators
  • Invent to Learn (book) web site
• Schools are My Happy Place by Gary Stager
• Wunderkammer, a unique take on inspiring project-based learning by Gary Stager
• The Constructing Modern Knowledge Podcast hosted by Gary Stager
• Summer Reading Recommendations for Educators (updated 2025)
• Our favorite software high-tech tools, books, and resources for creative educators
• Constructive, Creative, Playful Computing Options for Children & Families
• Clever Computing for Children course options

• Gary’s ISTELive 24 paper, Generative AI as Mathland and Constructionist Frontier
• Lots! by Gary Stager – in this article, Gary makes a case for computing
• Coding in the Age of AI Workshop Recording & Resources, including the code & experiments related to the ISTE 24 paper
• AI in Education Reading List
• Download the free whitepaper, Game-Changing AI Tools for Education, written by Gary Stager
• Learn more about AI in Education, its history and potential here
• Read Five Ways Constructing Modern Knowledge has Roots in AI
• Tutorials for machine learning and AI projects using the Finch robot or Hummingbird Robotics Kit
• Machine learning with the BBC micro:bit activity and tools by Aarhus University

• Obsolete Skill Set: The 3 Rs — Literacy and Letteracy in the Media Ages by Seymour Papert
• What is Logo? And Who Needs It? by Seymour Papert
• Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to the Wolfram Language (13-minute video)
• What is Wolfram Language – An interview with Stephen Wolfram (40-minute video)
• What is a Computational Essay? by Stephen Wolfram
• How to Teach Computational Thinking by Stephen Wolfram
• Game Over for Maths A-level by Conrad Wolfram
• Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated… by Stephen Wolfram
• ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”! – by Stephen Wolfram

An AI chatbot frontend onto the Wolfram Language computational system.

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