Back to the Future of Software

Alan Kay, Back to the Future of Software Development. Sequence of exercises with middle school age children from Drive-a-Car through recreation of Galileo's experiments with Gravity. youtube 59m15s

This sequence captures the systems thinking part of Kay's Three Ways We Must Think

In every class, you'll usually find one "Galileo child". In this class it was a little girl who realized: well, you don't really need the stop watches, just drop the heavy one and the light one and listen to see if they hit at the same time. See Reenacting Galileo's experiments with Gravity: blog

We found a nice trick using the frame plugin to post a subset of a video. Specify a start time in seconds. You can also specify an end time in seconds—we don't use that in this example. The natural width is 400px so HEIGHT 300 is a nice 3x4 aspect ratio.