[squeakland] [IAEP] Alan's Talk on "Programming and Scaling" at HPI now available online

[Carlos Rabassa]

Rita, Steve,

thanks for calling this talk and link to our attention,  we found it extremely interesting.

All the concepts Alan explains left us thinking.  His clear explanations add to the shock of thinking of these ideas for the first time.

It is like when we learn about a good new invention,  we think "this is a great idea but,  how come I never thought of this before?"

We thought it was very nice to thank all those individuals that helped him in developing his ideas.  I guess it is true there are many potential geniuses who are missing the cooperation of those developers and never see their great ideas materialize. We found it a nice and generous gesture on the part of Alan.  Needless to say it was nice to see people we know and appreciate like Bert and Yoshiki,  receive this well deserved recognition.

Another point that stuck to our mind was the idea of erasing the present to plan for the future.  This, Alan claims, forces us to look all over the past to find ideas to develop the future.  Last November,  at Plan Ceibal´s year end conference,  one of the speakers shocked us bringing examples of teaching in the past,  like the artisans and their pupils a few hundreds of years ago,  as examples of good education that we can implement today thanks to computers.  Most ideas we hear today about how to use computers in schools are the same teaching systems we already have in place,  just scaled up to handle large numbers of students.

Carlos Rabassa
Volunteer
Plan Ceibal Support Network
Montevideo, Uruguay



On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Steve Thomas wrote:

> Alan Kay's Talks "Programming and Scaling" is now available online at: http://www.tele-task.de/de/archive/lecture/overview/5819/ _______________________________________________
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