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Lunch with Guest Speaker Alan Kay "Learners, Powerful Ideas, and the $100 Laptop"

Session Details

Monday, January 30, 2006
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Garden Pavilion - 4th Floor

Speaker(s)

Alan C. Kay, President, and HP Senior Fellow, Viewpoints Research Institute

Abstract

We are strongly disposed to learn spoken language, but the powerful ideas of writing and reading had to be invented and seem to be more difficult to learn. Much of our world is made from the invention of powerful ideas such as agriculture, mathematics, science, and equal rights, and it is a worthy goal to try to find ways to teach these new forms of thinking to learners. A few years ago, it became more cost-effective to "print" books on a personal computer via a network than on paper. Today, it is possible to make a networked $100 laptop for the learners of the world that can both provide access to the world's knowledge and can also act as a dynamic medium for creative thought, a "dynabook” that can manifest new ways to represent powerful ideas and guide learners to learn.

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