Teaching (coding) for good

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Teaching (coding)  
for good
Alberto Montresor

This is the story of a
journey….

Coderdojo Verona, May 2014

Coderdojo Verona, ’19-‘20

Coderdojo Verona, 2019

Coderdojo Verona, 2019

Kids have fun

Kids have hard fun

How many years have
you spent in school?

Was it worth it?

What have you learned?
How have you learned?

Seymour Papert
• Mathematician, computer scientist,
and educator

• Co-founded the MIT Media Lab

• Worked with Piaget

• ...

Gears of my (his) childhood
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2x
2x

Gears of my childhood

Gears of my childhood

School gave me new tools

- Sums

- Products

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A kid with a VIC-20
• Commodore VIC 20: 8-bit, 1 Mhz, 3.5 KB of RAM

• I was using “base 100”

• Two decimal digits were s...

More school later
T(n) =
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n
log n 1X
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n ·
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+ 4log n
Serie geometrica ﬁnita:
8x 6= 1 :
kX
j=0
x...

My algorithm was right!

What are the gears  
of your childhood?
What is your passion?

Take-home lessons
True learning happens when 
you learn for yourself
when you fall in love with the
subject that you are l...

Unstructured learning

Do you (still) play?

Ludimus

Take-home lessons
True learning happens when  
you play
when you experiment, take risks,
test the boundaries, and iterativ...

Samba schools (clubs)
Papert mentions  
samba schools at  
the end of Mindstorms

Are you part of a
learning community  
of peers?

Speck & Tech

Take-home lessons
True learning happens when
you can share what you have
learned

Mitch Resnick
• Professor @ MIT Media Lab

• Creator of Scratch

• Passion
• Play
• Peer
• Projects

Coolest Project @ Verona

Coolest Projects @ Dublin

Mitch Resnick

The journey
continues…

What about the university?
The eternal struggle
between formal and
informal teaching
Varie ed eventuali
Opportunità
ACM-IC...

Hash Code 2018

Hash Code 2017

Tutoring/mentoring
Learning to teach,  
the (easy|hard) way

ICTDays Summercamp 2018

PeerGirls 2019

TeacherDojo 2019

TeacherDojo 2019

Even more informal
What if there is place where you
can follow your passion, play, meet
peers, and work on your projects?

Follow your passion

I almost forgot!
Why
coding?
computer science?
computational thinking?

Some lessons I’ve
learned by myself

Your gears are not
everybody else gears

Computers are better
than gears

Some kids have lost
the ability to learn by
themselves

You are planting seeds

Fare lezione vs Insegnare  
vs Educare
• Lectio: lettura (reading)

• In-signare: lasciare dei segni  
(leave marks)

• E-...

My journey
Being a  
(computer science)
educator

Come with me on
my journey…

February 21st, 2020
La bellezza
computazionale  
della natura

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