Name: 【TED】Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code (Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code) : Learn
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Past simple

what should I get my mom for Mother's Day?

using the Scratch software that I'd been developing

with my research group at the MIT Media Lab?

We developed it so that people could easily create

their own interactive stories and games and animations,

and then share their creations with one another.

So I thought, this would be an opportunity to use Scratch

So over the last several years, kids around the world

ages 8 and up, have shared their projects,

and I thought, I wonder if, of those three million projects,

whether anyone else has thought to put up Mother's Day cards.

and I was surprised and delighted to see a list

of dozens and dozens of Mother's Day cards

So I started taking a look at them. (Music)

and her mom and wishing her mom a happy Mother's Day.

Another one was an interactive project where,

when you moved the mouse over the letters of "Happy Mom Day,"

it reveals a special happy Mother's Day slogan.

(Music) In this one, the creator told a narrative

(Typing) And then once she found out when Mother's Day was happening,

she delivered a special Mother's Day greeting

So I really enjoyed looking at these projects

In fact, I liked it so much that, instead of making my own project,

I sent my mom links to about a dozen of these projects. (Laughter)

And actually, she reacted exactly the way that I hoped that she would.

"I'm so proud to have a son that created the software

that allowed these kids to make Mother's Day cards for their mothers."

So my mom was happy, and that made me happy,

but actually I was even happier for another reason.

I was happy because these kids were using Scratch

just in the way that we had hoped that they would.

As they created their interactive Mother's Day cards,

I mean that they were able to start expressing themselves

it means you can write an entry in your journal

or tell a joke to someone or write a letter to a friend.

By writing, be creating these interactive Mother's Day cards,

these kids were showing that they were really fluent

Now maybe you won't be so surprised by this,

young people today can do all sorts of things with technology.

I mean, all of us have heard young people referred to as "digital natives."

But actually I'm sort of skeptical about this term.

I'm not so sure we should be thinking of young people as digital natives.

When you really look at it, how is it that young people

spend most of their time using new technologies?

You often see them in situations like this,

are very comfortable and familiar browsing

So young people today have lots of experience

and lots of familiarity with interacting with new technologies,

but a lot less so of creating with new technologies

and expressing themselves with new technologies.

And I'm really interested in seeing, how can we help young people become fluent

And that really means that they need to be able to

write their own computer programs, or code.

So, increasingly, people are starting to recognize

You know, in recent years, there have been

hundreds of new organizations and websites

that are helping young people learn to code.

You look online, you'll see places like Codecademy

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