Great talk. My favorite part was where he showed some Java code and said: > Now, for some of you, when you hear about > this,<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#342513> > it might seem sort of strange about everybody learning to > code.<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#345356> > When many people think of coding, they think of > it<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#348964> > as something that only a very narrow > sub-community<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#352114> > of people are going to be > doing,<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#355690> > and they think of coding looking like > this.<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#358348> > And in fact, if this is what coding is > like,<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#361270> > it will only be a narrow sub-community of > people<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#363436> > with special mathematical skills and technological > background<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#365931> > that can > code.<http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#369003>
We really need new ways to think about programming. Cheers, Stephen P.S. Here's one nice clip from Dan Ingall's talk at JSConf 2012: http://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=12m for some "new" way to think about programming. I really like the use of connecting objects via drag and drop and connectors. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > A neat TED talk by Mitch Resnick about why (and how) kids need to learn > to code. http://bit.ly/TreN5K Be sure to watch to the end. You're never > too old to learn to code! > > Caryl > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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