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Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas

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What it is

Alan Kay's TED talk on teaching ideas, in which he argues the world is not what it seems and shows children learning through programming and building their own lessons with Etoys/Squeak.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a condensed version of Kay's ideas on education and computing, showing kids using software to explore physics and robotics.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2009, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “You'll see kids using the software to explore robotics and do physics of gravitation.”

    Kids using Squeak to explore robotics and gravitation physics.

    stcredzero, 2009-07 · Recommendation · in “The iPodTouch Is What The OLPC XO Should Have Been”

  2. “the much more condensed ted talk”

    Condensed Alan Kay talk on teaching ideas.

    e12e, 2018-09 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: alan kay, etoys, squeak, children, learning by doing

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