[squeak-dev] Smalltalk Impact

Ron Teitelbaum ron at usmedrec.com
Tue Jan 14 19:07:42 UTC 2014


That is very cool!  

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Sean DeNigris
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:03 PM
> To: pharo-dev at lists.pharo.org; squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: [squeak-dev] Smalltalk Impact
> 
> Last week I attended an event at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art Media
> Lab. While networking, two educators told me that they use Scratch with
their
> kids. not knowing I knew anything about it. They showed me some of their
> students' projects and were so proud and excited. They were also intrigued
> when I shared Scratch's lineage, connecting the dots back to the dynabook
> vision of computers as a metamedium to transform human thought. I talked
> about Smalltalk, and directed them to Phratch - and its ability to create
tiles - as
> a bridge between tile-based and "full fledged" programming, for those
students
> who yearn for more expressive power.
> 
> I thought you'd like to know that all of our work is rippling out in ways
we can't
> imagine.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sean




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