Computing, Making & Le Canard digérateur

Oliver Quinlan oliverquinlan.com @oliverquinlan

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“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

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KidsMeet DL

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scratch.mit.edu

iDHSB.co.uk

http://www.appshed.com

Raspberry Pi

“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

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

“Worse is Better”

Gancartz, The Unix Philosophy

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Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority Laggards

Tech Enthusiasts

Visionaries

Pragmatists

Conservatives

Skeptics

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"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

Sherry Turkle

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

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

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FryskLab

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“Making in the classroom is a political stance” Sylvia Martinez

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