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My interest in children's education came from a talk by Marvin Minsky, then a visit to Seymour Papert's early classroom experiments with LOGO. Adding in McLuhan led to an analogy to the history of printed books, and the idea of a Dynabook metamedium: a notebook-sized wireless-networked "personal computer for children of all ages". The real printing revolution was a qualitative change in thought and argument that lagged the hardware inventions by almost two centuries. The special quality of computers is their ability to rapidly simulate arbitrary descriptions, and the real computer revolution won't happen until children can learn to read, write, argue and think in this powerful new way. We should all try to make this happen much sooner than 200 or even 20 more years! This got me started designing computer languages and authoring environments for children, and I've been at it ever since. Looking back on these experiences, I’m struck that my lifelong processes of loving ideas and reacting

Peek Quotes Quotes Point at a quote and scroll horizontally. Alan Kay : The Power of the Context My interest in children's education came from a talk by Marvin Minsky, then a visit to Seymour Papert's early classroom experiments with LOGO. Adding in McLuhan led to an analogy to the history of printed books, and the idea of a Dynabook metamedium: a notebook-sized wireless-networked "personal computer for children of all ages". The real printing revolution was a qualitative change in thought and argument that lagged the hardware inventions by almost two centuries. The special quality of computer

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