Smalltalk gets a reference in fastcompany Kay interview
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-impres... Tim Sent from my iPhone
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-impres... <https://medium.com/fast-company/the-father-of-mobile-computing-is-not-impres...>
Tim
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Its a shame nog being able to read the article, because it is not posted in the open web and I don't have Facebook or Google to pay with my privacy for the "privilege" of reading Fast Company. Anyway, I agree with Hilaire. It's pretty difficult to be between worlds trying to bridge education and informatics (or activisms) when one part is extremely focused in their own extreme of the bridge and the stuff at the other side is so alien. Cheers, Offray El 19 de septiembre de 2017 14:37:19 GMT-05:00, Hilaire <hilaire@drgeo.eu> escribió:
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-impres...
<https://medium.com/fast-company/the-father-of-mobile-computing-is-not-impres...>
Tim
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On 20. Sep 2017, at 06:43, Offray <offray.luna@mutabit.com> wrote:
Hey!
Its a shame nog being able to read the article, because it is not posted in the open web and I don't have Facebook or Google to pay with my privacy for the "privilege" of reading Fast Company.
sign-up by email is possible as well, probably with a one time email address? The link is below their google sign-in button. cheers holger
Yes I also used the one time email link or the iPhone app as I don't use Facebook or a google login either. Sent from my iPhone
On 20 Sep 2017, at 02:54, Holger Freyther <holger@freyther.de> wrote:
On 20. Sep 2017, at 06:43, Offray <offray.luna@mutabit.com> wrote:
Hey!
Its a shame nog being able to read the article, because it is not posted in the open web and I don't have Facebook or Google to pay with my privacy for the "privilege" of reading Fast Company.
sign-up by email is possible as well, probably with a one time email address? The link is below their google sign-in button.
cheers holger
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