Why is learning about Computing important?

1. Computing, Making
& Le Canard digérateur
Oliver Quinlan
oliverquinlan.com
@oliverquinlan
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3. “Children will create … Whether order or disorder,
chaos or harmony, beauty or ugliness, accord or
violence, they will create. We all begin life with a will
to leave a mark no one else has left.”
David W. Orr

5. FryskLab

6. KidsMeet DL

8. scratch.mit.edu

9. iDHSB.co.uk

11. Raspberry Pi

15. “In the LOGO work we have invented versions of such
machines in which powerful ideas from physics or
mathematics or linguistics are embedded in a way that
permits the player to learn them in a natural fashion,
analogous to how a child learns to speak.”
Seymour Papert, Mindstorms

16. Certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a
lifetime.
One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful
ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the
idea of powerful ideas.
Seymour Papert, Mindstorms

19. “Worse is Better”
Gancartz, The Unix Philosophy

20. CC BY NC SA
Joris Cornielje

21. CC BY SA
Timitrius

22. CC BY
Doug
Belshaw

23. worrydream.com/MeanwhileAtCodeOrg/

25. Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards
Tech Enthusiasts
Visionaries
Pragmatists
Conservatives
Skeptics

28. "My studies of funerals are hilarious … Everybody’s texting.
When I ask them about it, they say, 'Yeah, I do it during the
boring bits.' So that's the question…
Sherry Turkle

29. Sherry Turkle
“What does it mean as a society that we are there for the
boring bits?”

30. “There is no cloud, it’s just someone else’s computer”
Chris Watterston

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Richard Masoner

33. FryskLab

34. CC BY SA
Mike Carter

36. CC BY
markow76

37. CC BY
markow76
“Making in the classroom is a political stance”
Sylvia Martinez

38. CC BY NC SA
Boris Bialek