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Sean P. DeNigris

Smalltalk Impact

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Last week I attended an event at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art Media Lab. While networking, two educators told me that they use Scratch with their kids… not knowing I knew anything about it. They showed me some of their students' projects and were so proud and excited. They were also intrigued when I shared Scratch's lineage, connecting the dots back to the dynabook vision of computers as a metamedium to transform human thought. I talked about Smalltalk, and directed them to Phratch - and its ability to create tiles - as a bridge between tile-based and "full fledged" programming, for those students who yearn for more expressive power.

I thought you'd like to know that all of our work is rippling out in ways we can't imagine…

Cheers,
Sean

Cheers,
Sean

Ron Teitelbaum

RE: Smalltalk Impact

That is very cool!

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
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> [hidden email]] On Behalf Of Sean DeNigris
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>
> Last week I attended an event at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art Media
> Lab. While networking, two educators told me that they use Scratch with
their
> kids. not knowing I knew anything about it. They showed me some of their
> students' projects and were so proud and excited. They were also intrigued
> when I shared Scratch's lineage, connecting the dots back to the dynabook
> vision of computers as a metamedium to transform human thought. I talked
> about Smalltalk, and directed them to Phratch - and its ability to create
tiles - as
> a bridge between tile-based and "full fledged" programming, for those
students
> who yearn for more expressive power.
>
> I thought you'd like to know that all of our work is rippling out in ways
we can't
> imagine.
>
> Cheers,
> Sean

Marcus Denker-4

Re: [Pharo-dev] Smalltalk Impact

In reply to this post by Sean P. DeNigris

On 14 Jan 2014, at 22:38, Hilaire Fernandes <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Scratch is very famous worldwide. A few days ago I heard about it in a
> national radio show about sciences.
> This is why Phratch & al are jewels, to keep the lineage to Smalltalk ;-)
>

No imagine how big the impact *could* have been if we would have done it right...

> Thanks
>
> Hilaire
>
> Le 14/01/2014 19:02, Sean DeNigris a écrit :
>> Last week I attended an event at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art Media Lab. While networking, two educators told me that they use Scratch with their kids… not knowing I knew anything about it. They showed me some of their students' projects and were so proud and excited. They were also intrigued when I shared Scratch's lineage, connecting the dots back to the dynabook vision of computers as a metamedium to transform human thought. I talked about Smalltalk, and directed them to Phratch - and its ability to create tiles - as a bridge between tile-based and "full fledged" programming, for those students who yearn for more expressive power.
>>
>> I thought you'd like to know that all of our work is rippling out in ways we can't imagine…
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sean
>>
>
>
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>
>

jannik laval

Re: [Pharo-dev] Smalltalk Impact

In reply to this post by Sean P. DeNigris

Hi guys,

Do not hesitate to speak about Phratch around you.

I will continue to write documentation and to improve it.

I hope also to have any help: feedback, documentation, translation, code...

Thank you for your help.

Jannik

2014/1/14 Hilaire Fernandes <[hidden email]>

Scratch is very famous worldwide. A few days ago I heard about it in a
national radio show about sciences.
This is why Phratch & al are jewels, to keep the lineage to Smalltalk ;-)

Thanks

Hilaire

Le 14/01/2014 19:02, Sean DeNigris a écrit :

> Last week I attended an event at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art Media Lab. While networking, two educators told me that they use Scratch with their kids… not knowing I knew anything about it. They showed me some of their students' projects and were so proud and excited. They were also intrigued when I shared Scratch's lineage, connecting the dots back to the dynabook vision of computers as a metamedium to transform human thought. I talked about Smalltalk, and directed them to Phratch - and its ability to create tiles - as a bridge between tile-based and "full fledged" programming, for those students who yearn for more expressive power.
>
> I thought you'd like to know that all of our work is rippling out in ways we can't imagine…
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
>

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~~Jannik Laval~~
École des Mines de Douai
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