Thanks to share the article.
Alan Kay thought can be hard to follow, especially considering, in one
hand, his main foci are education, educating, authoring media, and in
the other hand, his audience is mainly in the computer field without
much notion about education & al.
His main vision, about computerized authoring tool to enlighten the mind
is a strong and exciting assertion. In this vision, the users will build
their own model to explore a given concept. Etoys was really what came
close to this idea, with medias you can interconnect to build
simulation, model, etc. It let you build these things more easily than
any programming tool. However I am wondering if even talented young
students or teachers can really embrace it. I know talented teachers and
I doubt they could do it with Etoys. May be Etoys was just itching the
surface of this vision.
Hilaire
Le 17/09/2017 à 14:34, Tim Mackinnon a écrit :
Interesting (although I found slightly rambling) interview with Alan
Kay about personal computing. But Smalltalk does get a link.
https://medium.com/fast-company/the-father-of-mobile-computing-is-not-impressed-9ab25dfff0c
<https://medium.com/fast-company/the-father-of-mobile-computing-is-not-impressed-9ab25dfff0c?source=linkShare-a6665254f470-1505651278>
Tim
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