Principles of Play
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Claims a curriculum built from playtesting with kids, backed by Kickstarter $380,000, and distilled into three principles: playfulness, logic, curiosity. Describes concrete experiments: cardboard “computers” toddlers crawl through, keyboard sticker labs, dance-loops that teach repetition, flowchart misfortune games and paper prototypes that parents and children iterate in Japan and Denmark. Reports shipping workbooks and classroom activities, shows what surprised testers, and documents which hands-on tools actually teach computational concepts versus abstract lectures.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:44My Journey
- 14:04Infinite Loop
- 14:23Two Types of Jars in Programming
- 15:42Lego
- 16:00Three Types of Motivations for Play
- 18:41The Playfulness Principle
- 24:30First Computer Programmer
- 25:40Types of Memory
- 26:01Physical Activities
- 34:19Alan Kay
- 42:49The Greatest Challenge in Teaching Children Programming
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