An instrument whose music is ideas

An instrument whose music is ideas Smalltalk, EToys, OLPC and the idea of the Children’s Machine

Music is not inside the piano. Alan Kay

... and education is not inside the computer ...

In the 60’s Jean Piaget is the great pioneer of constructivism Human generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.

1967 : Seymourt Paper invent the Logo langage and the constructionism Learning should be connected to real world

The Dynabook Vision Alan Kay, 1968

The Dynabook Vision SpaceWar! Alan Kay, 1968

The Dynabook Vision Collaborative Wireless Alan Kay, 1968

The Dynabook Vision Programmers of the game Alan Kay, 1968

Moores Law: Hardware is no Problem! (ca. 1980 it will be good enough) 10 years to do the software

Xerox PARC, Alto 1973 Bitmap Display: ca. 600x800 4Mips Microcode performance 128-512KB RAM, 2.5MB Disk Ethernet LAN, Laser printer Chuck Thacker

Smalltalk 72-80

Object- oriented Programming Smalltalk-80 Graphical User Interface

"It's an education project, not a laptop project." Nicholas negroponte te

Experiments with the real world

Warranty applied only if you disassemble the machine, Nicolas Negroponte.

Squeak EToys, 1996-now Children’s programming and Media Environment

EToys Demo

Squeak EToys: http://www.squeakland.org/

Links • Alan Kay’s research group: http:// www.vpri.org/ • Etoys in french: http://community.ofset.org/ index.php/Etoys • OLPC : http://laptop.org/ • Thanks you to Marcus Denker & Séverin Lemaignan

«The best way to predict the future is to invent it», Alan Kay

An instrument whose music is ideas

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