How is your world programmed?

Articles around Playful Learning & Constructionist Education & Innovative Use of Media

• Programming for Children, Minus Cryptic Syntax - a great article in the New York Times.
  
• Creators need to see what they are doing - an inspiring talk by Bret Victor
• Noam Chomsky: The Purpose of Education - podcasted by "Learning without Frontiers"
• Experimental learning in Physics by NPR
• 4 R's of modern literacy: reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic and (algo)'rithms - Washington Post
• Revolutionizing the classroom through video: Khan Academy on TED talks
• Unschooling - what do kids really need to learn?
• Mitchel Resnick: Why Playful Learning is NOT Edutainment
• Remixing in the MediaLab's words
• Technologies for Creative Learning MIT OPEN COURSEWARE
• Lilac's blog: MIT Sloanで習ったこと
• Two fun approaches to teaching kids programming: Mozilla's Hackers' tent and Ireland's Coder Dojo, where kids teach kids.
• A hands-on blog post on Collaborative media exploration for 3rd graders
• How do teenagers think about programming? An Interview with 7 17-18 year-olds by the Guardian
• 金井哲夫、子供のための即席Makerスペースから学んだこと
• Neil Gershenfeld on TED: MIT FAbLab: After the digital revolution - make anyting!
• Zed Shaw on how to learn programming (and clean thinking, for that matter): The Hard Way is Easier

Possibly without intending to, this clip absolutely nails the topic. Watch it TWICE!
英語は分からなくても、このクリップだけは見るべきです！

Quotes on the Topic

If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
Chinese proverb

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.
Albert Einstein

人間が完全な孤独を体験できるのは、物体的な物質世界でしかない。この完全な孤独の体験は、人間が自立した存在になるために必要なことなのです。なぜなら、いわば他の種の力や威力がいつも身体の中を流れている、もうひとつの世界に止まるのならば、いつまでたっても自立しないのですから。
Michael Ende

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

We destroy the love of learning in children ...by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.
John Holt Jr

Too often, we give children answers to remember, rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one
Henry David Thoreau

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future
John F. Kennedy

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning!
Mark Twain

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce A. Myers

Change before you have to!
Jack Welch

Courage doesnt always roar. Sometimes its the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow
M.A Radmacher

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

There won’t be schools in the future. I think the computer will blow up the school. That is, the school defined as something where there are classes, teachers running exams, people structured into groups by age, following a curriculum.
Seymour Papert

Stay hungry, stay foolish!
Steve Jobs

Finally

Although Steve Jobs was an inspiring fellow, let's not give him the last word. Please click here, and then switch off your iPhone!