Second video of the primary school journey towards exploring the computer and its codes.

Assembling the Kano computer - close-ups filmed by the children.
This video is entirely made of shots filmed by the children. Quality is lower due to the obsolescence of the cameras that were used, and to the loss caused by the conversion to MP4. However, I do not think that this makes the content less enjoyable, on the contrary...

(Child)Serena... I'm lost

(Andreas Formiconi) This video is made
of excerpts from the video sequences

made by the children:

almost all are close-ups,
which is a reflection

of their capacity to concentrate
on details.

Some of the video cameras that
the children had

were lent, and are old models.

So the quality is not excellent,
but this does not alter

the freshness of the documentation,
which highlights

the pleasant collaborative ambiance

evidenced by the audio
of the excerpt

that follows right here.

(Childrens' voices)

(Teacher) these... look, who is yelling?

(Child) Him!
(Teacher) Move aside, so he can see you.

(Child) No, you skewed it in...

(Child) I'm only filming your hands
so as to only show what you are doing.

(Child) Yes, there! We took it too.

(Child) The card

Then I must not insert this card

(Child) No no, you must remove the card.

(Child) But did you already do it?

(Child) Remove the stoppers.

(AF) Another aspect illustrated
by the former sequence

is the use made of the instruction booklet.

Here we see an instance of fluid roles

where the child Mario should be writing,
but actually, at this stage,

he is helping with the insertion
of the wireless key

and these images of hands
helping one another are beautiful

and the concentration of this little girl

who is looking for the right place

for inserting the wireless key
is marvelous.

Hard work!

And this looking, this examining
with their eyes,

but also with their hands, maneuvering
things around in all possible ways.

Now the assembling
is almost completed.

The green key for the wireless,

the yellow cable for inserting video

the blue cable is the audio one

and inside, in transparency,
the Raspberry's card

i.e. the brain of our computer.

Alessio takes the box, opens it.

There are a keyboard, a loudspeaker,
the motherboard, the plug,

two plastic pieces to build the board
a key, the memory card,

and finally, two threads, a longer one
and a shorter one

Meanwhile, texts are getting
elaborated,

written by the children in charge of
narrating activities as they happen.

We're almost done:

the keyboard is ready,
all cables are connected

and Kano's plug: the monitor
is still spent, unconnected

but its plug must be connected too.

The monitor gets connected,
the computer starts.

Here we go!
(children's voices)

Unsurprisingly,
a frenetic exploration has begun.

Children find a word processing software
and, immediately, Minecraft

which they know very well.

Minecraft is a game
that has become very popular,

a sandbox kind of game,

in other words, a free game where
you can invent what you do.

It can be played constructively,
creating your own world,

or as a survival game,
fighting monsters and so on.

It's also very often used in education.

Here, we let the children free to play
for ca 20 minutes,

to let them connect this big labor,
where they did not know the end goal

to a world that is very familiar for them.

Then, the final stage where
they finish the drawings,

they show them, read their narrations
with comments on some aspects.

And as usual, surprisingly, every time

the children always scrupulously

put everything back.