Squeak is a lovely software system ideally designed for education. It allows children to set up their own little projects and to communicate in a nice rich environment. They can learn the fundamentals of creating dynamic projects using a range of different approaches from simple to use and put together scriptable objects to more advanced tile based design.
For teachers there is the possibility of developing knowledge pathways, so that a child can choose which area of knowledge the wish to pursue, just like chasing the mouse.
For developers there is the opportunity to expand and explore the potential for building on system that has, really got an enormous amount of imagination built into it.
I'm off now, why don't you take a visit to Squeakland, and see for yourself.
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