Though modern computers are a lot more complex in many ways, Apple does understand the need of power users and students to explore and create.
Tag: education
Kitchen table conversations
This election cycle much has been made out of what should be left to families to discuss over "kitchen table" conversations. Should it be racism? Should it be sex education? Should it be New Jersey's LGBTQ inclusive curriculum? Here are the topics we discuss in my family with our two kids — one in middle school, the other in high school.
Teleportation can corrupt your data
By sending me unsolicited emails and by cold calling me using robotic software you are indicating to me that you feel my time is not valuable. You are saying that interrupting me all day with unsolicited emails and cold calls costs you nothing but a small chance of you winning a gig is worth it to you.
Collaborative work in the cloud: what I learned teaching my daughter how to code
Whether my third grader becomes a software engineer when she grows up remains to be seen. The ability to customize and extend the behavior of a computer is a skill that is going to remain with her for the lifetime. If she wants to be an educator she can make educational apps. If she becomes a business person or a scientist she will be able to use computers to her advantage. This is what being a citizen developer is all about.
Attracting STEM Graduates to Traditional Enterprise IT
Techcrunch reports: If 17-year-old Google is at all worried that it’s losing its mojo, it should find some new data highly reassuring. According to a survey of 19,000 students across 340 universities around the world, Google is still their top choice when asked where they’d want to work. Their other top picks, in descending order: … Continue reading Attracting STEM Graduates to Traditional Enterprise IT
The Clarkson School Class of 2015 Commencement
Last weekend, on May 2nd, I had an opportunity to come to Clarkson University and give an alumni address at the Clarkson School Class of 2015 Commencement. The best way to describe Clarkson School is that it is bridging year program where talented high school students get to leave high school a year or two … Continue reading The Clarkson School Class of 2015 Commencement
Microsoft and Apple Have Everything to Lose if Chromebooks Succeed
Desperate times call for desperate measures at Microsoft. Frobes reports: Despite a lacklustre start, Chromebooks are becoming relatively popular in the super-budget end of the portable market. This has worried Microsoft for some time. After all, with a Google-centric experience, not to mention an operating system in the form of Chrome OS, there’s little if … Continue reading Microsoft and Apple Have Everything to Lose if Chromebooks Succeed
Thanking MIT Scratch
I wrote in January that computers might have become too complicated to be used effectively for teaching kids how to program. I learned how to program on a very simple computer that had BASIC as the only way to interact with it; even to load a game I had to know how to type in … Continue reading Thanking MIT Scratch
Have computers become too complicated for teaching ?
I learned computer programming on a Cold War era Soviet programmable calculator called Elektronika MK-61. It was a very simple device that used a four element calculation stack, a handful of registers, and programming it was very much like writing assembler code. It had a number of undocumented features that made simple games possible. It's … Continue reading Have computers become too complicated for teaching ?
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