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

[karl ramberg]

Lots to take in from the video, many ideas that challenge the state of
mind.
Also some recognition, I'm well routed in the Tinkering part of this diagram
:-)

Karl

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Carlos Rabassa <carnen at mac.com> wrote:

> 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:
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