Squeakers wow!

Dustin Sallings dustin at spy.net
Thu Aug 14 06:27:55 UTC 2003


On Wednesday, Aug 13, 2003, at 23:18 US/Pacific, John M McIntosh wrote:

> Alan,  I think you need to mention how one can get their hands on the
>
> "Squeakers DVD"

	I didn't see a link in there, but I ordered one from here:

	http://www.squeakland.org/sqmedia/sqmediahome.html

> A few notes from the DVD cover:
>
> "A documentary film celebrating a new way of teaching math and science  
> to young children using computers with computer pioneer Dr. Alan Kay"
>
> Squeakers is a documentary film on the groundbreaking new work in  
> computers and education by the 'Father of the Personal Computer" Dr.  
> Alan Kay, and his group of researchers.
>
> Teaching children critical thinking skills through math and science is  
> Dr. Kay's driving passion. It has fueled thirty years of computer  
> innovation starting at Xerox PARC in the 70's. Squeak is the latest --  
> a powerful computer environment used here to develop a pilot  
> curriculum to help children attain math and science literacy at a very  
> young age..
>
> We see:
> -- two exciting ongoing pilot programs in Los Angeles classrooms
> -- a first-time Squeak workshop in Japan
> -- a number of Dr Kay's Colleagues including cognitive psychologist  
> Jerome Bruner, musician and humanitarian Quincy Jones, and computer  
> and education guru Seymour Paper.
> -- fifth and sixth graders having fun learning Squeak!
>
> An 18 chapter DVD, produced by a grant from Ball state university c  
> 2002
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 11:23  PM, Alan Kay wrote:
>
>> Thanks Chris --
>>
>> The documentary was done by Ball State University, funded by Eli  
>> Lilly, and shot in High-Def. It recently won 4 Emmy's and a Cine  
>> Golden Eagle Award (the national award for documentaries).
>
>
>> --
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