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Saved by 33 people (-1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-01-30
- Julie_wray on 2009-05-11 - Tags technology , literacy , 21st , century
- Caitlin032118 on 2009-02-22 - Tags technology , education , media_literacy , programming , curriculum , article , commentary
- Lnitsche on 2009-01-28 - Tags programming , prensky , literacy , technology , critical_thinking
- Billgx on 2008-08-24 - Tags programming , tech , techliteracy , literacy , technology , trends , webdesign
- Advee77 on 2008-06-20 - Tags prensky , programming , literacy
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I believe the single skill that will, above all others, distinguish a literate person is programming
literacy, the ability to make digital technology do whatever, within the possible
one wants it to do -- to bend digital technology
to one's needs, purposes, and will, just as in
the present we bend words and images.
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Remember, only a few centuries ago, reading
and writing were confined to a small specialist
class whose members we called scribes.
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Will the need for a
separate scribe tribe of programmers continue
through the twenty-first century, or will the
skill set of an educated person soon include
programming fluency?
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Today's
kids are such good programmers that parents
who buy expensive high tech gadgets, such as
camcorders or home theaters, often hand them
to their children to set up (program) for them.
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Most of us have problems a computer or
another digital machine could easily solve for
us, if only we conceived them as programming
problems
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