The Polaroid kids tablet is designed to make learning fun.

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Instead the idea is to make learning to code fun and sociable.

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"The goal is to accelerate learning, and the key to acceleration is to make it fun, interactive, competitive, and self-diagnostic, " he says, adding that we could see an explosion of programmers building interactive training systems.

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Peer learning and collaboration make going to class not only more effective but also more fun.

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For him, learning and using that new knowledge to make his experience fuller at the same time are what constitutes fun.

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