Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas

http://www.ted.com With all the intensity and brilliance he is known for, Alan Kay gives TEDsters a lesson in lessons. Kay has spent years envisioning better techniques for teaching kids. In this talk, after reminding us that "the world is not what it seems," he shows us how good programming can sharpen our picture. His unique software lets children learn by doing, but also learn by computing and by creating lessons themselves.

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• computers
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[locusSol]

More teachers need to watch this. Really.

[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.

[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.

[ericexit]

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