Re:Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's...
by gavinpc on Saturday August 27, 2016 @11:56AM
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Thoughtful and clearly written. I also have a six-year-old daughter and many of the same concerns.
Even as a shameless Alan Kay fanboy, I'd managed to miss his 2007 TED talk until last night. It includes a kind of front-to-back demo of how they were using computers (and other means) to teach six-year-olds at that time, which I haven't seen in his longer talks for technical audiences.
Even as a shameless Alan Kay fanboy, I'd managed to miss his 2007 TED talk until last night. It includes a kind of front-to-back demo of how they were using computers (and other means) to teach six-year-olds at that time, which I haven't seen in his longer talks for technical audiences.
https://archive.org/details/AlanKay_2007