Greg Wilson: A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning - 'I believe very strongly that we will only get through the next fifty years if we start to care about each other and our collective future more than we do right now'

Discovered: Oct 24, 2021.19:46 A Critical History of Logo and Constructionist Learning <– “ I was in my early thirties when I finally accepted that for most people, programming was and always would be a tax they had to pay in order to do whatever they actually cared about. Recursion, parallelism, and design patterns weren’t somehow worthier than gardening, brewing, or running marathons; by acting and speaking as though they were, I was alienating people and making computing less accessible.” <– I will reluctantly :-) concede that not everybody should learn to program in a traditional language like scheme or python but i still maintain that spreadsheet programming is real programming that EVERYBODY learns and therefore we should make spreadsheets and tools like them much better! e.g. somehow add version control, somehow add tests, etc.
I believe very strongly that we will only get through the next fifty years if we start to care about each other and our collective future more than we do right now. I also believe that in order to do that, we need to figure out why we *haven't* cared in the past. The Internet and modern computing culture aren't solely responsible for today's woes, but they're responsible for enough of them to be worth looking at much more critically than Silicon Valley chooses to <--- YES, we must learn how to co-operate and work together to secure our collective future if we are to survive climate change.
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