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Computer Science Education Week
One-minute teaser version here

Coding Kids by Mrs. Petroski's Class

Mitch Resnick of MIT

On 'digital natives':
Young people today have lots of experience interacting with new technologies, but a less so with creating with new technologies and expressing themselves with new technologies. It's almost as if they can read but not write with new technologies. And I'm really interested in seeing how we can help young people become fluent, so they can write with new technologies.

Amazon Vice-President Dave Clark

On the technology needs of major corporations:
we have computers and algorithmic work that tells people the areas of the building that have the most space to put product in that’s coming in at that time.
Programmer teaches homeless people to code
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