On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > That was my thought when I first saw what Seymour Papert was doing with > children and LOGO in the 60s. I was thinking about going back into Molecular > Biology, but Seymour showed that computers could *really* be important as > unique vehicles for teaching "powerful ideas" and "powerful thinking" to > young children -- this was like a light going on.
I can believe it. So simple and so powerful. > There is more on this at http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php under the > category of "sorted by: Teaching and Learning Powerful Ideas" Yeah, when I first found VPRI a couple of years ago I went nuts and downloaded a dozen or so PDFs, implemented a simple COLA in Python, etc.. I've been urging my [programmer] friends to take a look ever since. (Sadly, with limited success.) _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
