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Alan Kay on Why Computer-Based Teaching Fails
Here’s a lightly-edited transcription of Alan Kay, explaining why computer-aided instruction so often fails (from “Doing with Images makes Symbols”, 1987), After the experience I’ve had with working...
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In 1987, Alan kay said, By the way, Sketchpad was the first system where it was discovered that the light pen was a very bad input device. The blood runs out of your hand in about 20 seconds, and...
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