Great talk.  My favorite part was where he showed some Java code and said:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#342513" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Now, for some of you, when you hear about this,</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#345356" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">it might seem sort of strange about everybody learning to code.</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#348964" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">When many people think of coding, they think of it</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#352114" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">as something that only a very narrow sub-community</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#355690" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">of people are going to be doing,</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#358348" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">and they think of coding looking like this.</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#361270" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">And in fact, if this is what coding is like,</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#363436" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">it will only be a narrow sub-community of people</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2013-02-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email#365931" class="transcriptLink" rel="nofollow" style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">with special mathematical skills and technological background</a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_cod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<div> </div><div>We really need new ways to think about programming.  </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Stephen</div><div>P.S. Here's one nice clip from Dan Ingall's talk at JSConf 2012: <a href="http://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=12m">http://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=12m</a> for some "new" way to think about programming.  I really like the use of connecting objects via drag and drop and connectors.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Caryl Bigenho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">A neat TED talk by Mitch Resnick about why (and how) kids need to learn to code. </span><a href="http://bit.ly/TreN5K" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(59,89,152);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TreN5K</a><span style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif"> Be sure to watch to the end. You're never too old to learn to code!</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
<span style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:17px;text-align:left;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif">Caryl</span></div>
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