Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas

[Typho0n86]

Stop breathing on the mic k tkz plz

[ikemstar]

10 disgruntled individuals failed their exams! It's okay: rewind this video, and repeat 100 times in the comments: "I must open my mind to new and creative ways of learning."

[fghjklp23]

Loveed it....a beautiful way to teach kids about manipulating(programming) machines and as a result learning science.

[smallbert]

So dull

[meotaku2]

If this $100 laptop is any good, he should have been able to do the whole talk using the $100 laptop.

[anfedorov]

Looks like Alan forgot to divide by 31 -

$8 billion / day would be ~$5.5 million / minute, or $100 million / 18 minutes.

Still, his greater point stands - society has more than abundant resources for pedagogical innovation that it's painful to watch being wasted elsewhere.

[Wintershade3001]

@anfedorov so? if USA can spend that amount of money on waging wars, why wouldn't they be able to spend it on education?

Oh, right, I forgot. Because that would actually make people *smarter* than most conservative political and religious organisations would like.

[ericexit]

Well...this was interesting until he started talking about his idiotic computer.

[SonakoMakeric]

The sad thing is, looking at his steering-wheel variable game and others, is this: Children can be taught and fully understand, but many teenagers nowadays would have trouble fully understanding it.

[sunrisewalker]

Not in the teenager's comfort zone, and not surrounded by their peers they think are judging them. But speaking as a camp counselor for a teen camp- if you get them in a different environment with people they haven't build a social pecking order with- you would be amazed at the way teenagers who you though were brain dead can think.

[artenjoyer]

Personally TED still needed by o lot of people like me as a teacher who inspired me in some ways. For some people maybe no, perhaps those expect more than what TED gives.

[daniellivingstone]

lol, is it just me or is it a touch ironic to go on and on about how useless technology is, and how tech geeks suck, in comments on YouTube?

Well, no duh, without the tech geeks there would be no YouTube and you'd have to rant to yourself.

ps If you pay attention when you watch this video you might realize its actually about education and learning more than about technology.

[castingtherunes]

well, I never asked for youtube. I never asked for a craptop - er laptop. I never asked for the retard who invented kindle. Trust me, without all of these things, I would write to you and still tell you that you suck. Your mission is to destroy the earth so we can live on other planets. Well, I'm going to put a stop to it.

[scootscr15]

What, are you going to boycott the internet?

go ahead, ill time you!

Get a hobby.

[castingtherunes]

No. I'm gonna boycott retards like you.

[castingtherunes]

well, cellphones are good for making and taking calls. That's it for me. I don't want internet on it. And I certainly don't need to take pictures with it, or watch shows on it. And text messaging is the dumbest thing invented. I've never done it and will never do it.

[castingtherunes]

All these TED speakers are boring as fuck. Maybe they need some heavy duty rolfing to clean out their insides. Rolf, rolf!!

[11889music]

you should go live in another country....one that shares your priorities and expectations for life. . . At this point, you are just stifling the progress of humanity....

would you please step aside?

[castingtherunes]

I'd rather live in another country. One that doesn't embrace technology as much as we do. Especially the piss-poor technology we come up with. Who says all progress is good?

[ttsguitarist]

Well, progress that is not good (or beneficial in some way) would not be called progress.

A technology that does more harm than good in our lives would not be progress (for us).

And Jamaica is very close. They seem to choose not to embrace very much technology. Oh, I mean... IF don't count the many form of electricity and cars and boats and such.... but, yeh, it seems that Jamaica would be nice for you, runes.

[11889music]

so, the comment above (by ttsguitarist) was left by me.... but that account was logged in before hand ... so ...

please blame me for those words..and add the follwing...

what 'piss-poor' technology are you

referring to?

[castingtherunes]

TV has become impossible to watch. 20 years ago, the remote control had about 4 buttons on it. Now it has 25. And when I'm watching TV, I don't like a quarter of my screen identifying the channel, or telling me the news, or giving me cable information. A TV shouldn't imitate a laptop.

[11889music]

sounds like you should go into the tech. development industry!

and forget cell phones or TV, you have an account on Youtube!!!

for every time you have replied to me, you have contradicted your own message.

why do you use a computer?

given its technological complexity, you must be able to find THOUSANDS of flaws in its design. but instead of finding out to innovate where others have flawed you simple boycott and complain. i must say, it is a very stable plan.

[quathar]

Stop griping like a unabomber wannabe and go do something productive.

[castingtherunes]

Quagmire. Go back to your faceless role as cog in the ubertechnological machine and admit to yourself one thing: the Unabomber rocked.

[scootscr15]

No, he did not rock. He was a loser. Don't honor those kind of people.

[0dane0]

get basic cable?

[castingtherunes]

What's it to ya, Onan?

[feerof]

lol talk about having an attention disorder. first you rant about geeks, then you bring up very stupid arguments with poor premises. What's next? I'm boycotting you =).

[castingtherunes]

Push your wimpy button, tech tard.

[kejster]

Kay needs to upgrade his presentations.

I'm a big fan of his. But I have seen all of this before.

[smirkelpus]

great ideas -- who is producing the 100 laptops -- and who are they for?

[DustTown]

Go Ted! Love these kind of teaching programs yay!

[dollaresque]

I think 100mil dollars is more like 9 hours in Iraq as oppose to 18min. If we spent 100mil in 18min, 300+ mil per hour, we'd hit the 8 billion figure in a day. Even the Pentagon crazies couldn't pull that off.

[adorianvlad]

dollaresque, I think that Mr. Alan Key meant 1 day, not 1 month

the 3 simple rule:

if 18...$10^8

HMM (How Many Minutes)...$8*10^9 ($8 Billion)?

HMM = 1440 min = 24 hrs = 1 day

[adorianvlad]

but anyhow, I think that's not the correct assumption, considering that actually US is spending in 1 month $8*10^9 ($8 billion) not in one day, so that means:

3 simple rule:

30 days = 43,200 minutes ...$8*10^9

HMM ... $10^8

in this case, HMM = 4320 min = 72 hrs = 3 days and not 18 minutes (nor 9 Hours as you are suggesting, dollaresque)

[dollaresque]

Hm, I dunno, I don't get that math at the end. I agree 30 days = 43,200mins. We can agree we spend $8bill/month. So then, take $8billion DIVIDE by 43,200min EQUALS $185.2K which means we spend a bit over $185,000 per minute in Iraq. I take that and multiply it by 9hours (or 540minutes to be exact) and get approximately $100million (the answer we were looking for)! But in either case, war isn't as expensive as 100mil/18min nor is it as cheap as 100mil/3days. No? Thanx for calculating with me :)

[adorianvlad]

yes, you're right. (i did that at 5 a.m., that's my only excuse ;-), so no, I will not bang my head on the wall this time (: )

I forgot to divide by 8

4320/8 = 540 min = 9 hrs

[locusSol]

More teachers need to watch this. Really.

[awaken69]

awesome!

[clintcarter]

Brilliant.

[ddball1]

Good teaching programs seem simple too ;)