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Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code

By: Mario Mediavilla

Mitch Resnick

• MIT Media Lab Director of“Lifelong Kindergarten group.”

• Also the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at MIT Media Lab

Expand your mind Mitch Resnick wants to see schools and people to start coding . Make it something as normal as reading and writing.

There are a few sites dedicated to helping anyone that wants to code.

Coding lets you do amazing things

Mitch starts by talking about how he sent his mother a digital card through a website he help create. He shows how easy it is to code a interactive image and how fun it is. He then went on using this website as an example and showing how fun coding is.

Interactive speaker

Mitch uses a new method on his website to interact with the audience. He makes them have fun by screaming and controlling a bats altitude from being silent that leaves the bat flying above to when they scream and the bat dives towards the ground.

Impact on kidsHe also talked about how he showed a 13 year old kid how to use variables in his website. With this he saw that the kid was determined and proud of what he did. With that that kid could become a programmer or many other things just because of that little discovery.

Mitch talked in detail and got very interactive with the audience. He showed great knowledge and understanding on how coding could help people out specially kids.

He did it in a way that anyone in the audience goes out thinking of the possibilities of what he talked about.

Also left a fantastic impression by giving the audience proof and something fun to do. So this kept everyone to pay attention and have fun in the process.

I rate Mitch Resnick a 4 out of 5 in dynamism. He showed great knowledge of the subject. He has also put that knowledge to work by putting code clubs all around low income neighborhoods.

My only complain is that he needed to show more enthusiasm for the presentation. The proof is very interesting but some enthusiasm would have gone a long way on leaving a even better impression of him.

Mitch’s speech was incredible and should be taken a lot more serious. Coding is the way the future is going and his ideas for what kids can do now are incredible.

I am certain that at one point he is going to help forge a future where coding is something normal done by almost everyone.

Mitch stayed on target with what he wanted to show the world and how he seas how things should go. He showed determination and love to what he was showing. He was very vocal and interactive so I would say he followed most of the standards of Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte.

Sir Ken Rebinson had more enthusiasm and was very funny and interactive with the audience. Mitch Resnick was not too funny but was very interactive with his audience and showed how fun coding really is.

Sir Ken wants to changed the education system as so did Mitch so both of them have an understanding. The worlds education needs to changed for the better and not go backwards

I would say, learn about what Mitch is trieng to convey to people. Go to one of the coding websites and do a few lines of code just so you know what people go through.

Go to his website and see what he uses to teach children how to code and also show them how fun it is.

Show examples and present them with joy, knowledge and confidence.

Image http://www.ted.com/speakers/mitch_resnick.html http://www.ted.com/speakers/sir_ken_robinson.html http://www.gromfrog.com/?p=377 http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia/plan_your_ted/ http://

www.guardian.co.uk/technology/poll/2012/sep/05/estonia-students-learn-to-code

http://woodalls.me/blog/category/code-academy/ http://www.ted.com/talks/mitch_resnick_let_s_teach_kids_to_code.html

(I used a image capturing software to take some pictures from the video)