Linda Liukas: A delightful way to teach kids about computers
לינדה ליוקאס: דרך נפלאה ללמד ילדים על מחשבים
Linda Liukas wants to create a more diverse and colorful world of technology, starting with the poetry of code. Full bio
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that drove the whole generation.
זה היה מוזיקת פאנק שהניעה את הדור.
to our imagination and our world.
more diverse set of people
and lonely and boring and magic,
כמכאניים ובודדים ומשעמים וקסומים,
that they can tinker
שהם יכולים לשחק איתם
and so forth.
of programming and technology
on an older man,
בבחור מבוגר יותר,
just happened to be
of the United States, Mr. Al Gore.
teenage girl would want to do.
היתה רוצה לעשות.
express all of this love,
there was no Pinterest.
all of this longing and loving.
started for me.
I would use crayons and legos.
הייתי משתמשת בעפרונות צבעוניים ולגו.
guitar lessons and theater plays.
הייתי משתמשת בגיטרה שלי ומחזות תאטרון.
to get excited about,
are boring and technical and lonely.
וטכניים ובודדים.
are not supposed to like computers.
שהן לא אמורות לאהוב מחשבים.
at concentrating on things
amazing questions like,
והן שואלות שאלות מדהימות כמו,
and "How?" and "What if?"
are not supposed to like computers.
is this esoteric, weird science discipline
הם דיסיפלינה מדעית אזוטרית, מוזרה
from everyday life
and controls and data structures
we've made computers smaller and smaller.
עשינו את המחשבים קטנים יותר ויותר.
of abstraction on top of each other
have any idea how computers work
איך מחשבים עובדים
how the human body works,
איך הגוף האנושי עובד,
the combustion engine functions
איך מנוע הבעירה הפנימי עובד
that if you want to really be an astronaut
שאם הם באמת רוצים להיות אסטרונאוטים
what happens when I press 'play,'
כשאתם לוחצים 'פליי',
אנחנו הופכים לשקטים באופן מוזר.
really, really, really fast.
these amazing, beautiful machines,
את המכונות המדהימות והיפיפיות האלו,
very, very foreign to us,
to the computers
how to speak to the computers anymore
French irregular verbs,
my pattern recognition skills.
a sequence of symbolic commands
between English and mathematics
and pinch their way through the world.
מזיזים וצובטים את הדרך שלהם בעולם.
to build with computers,
כדי לבנות עם מחשבים,
instead of creators.
led me to this little girl.
imaginative and a little bit bossy.
מלאת דמיון ומעט שטלתנית.
I would run into a problem
myself programming like,
or what is garbage collection?",
או מה זה איסוף זבל?",
little girl would explain the problem.
בת שש היתה מסבירה את הבעיה.
and I illustrated it
Ruby taught me go like this.
not supposed to be afraid
stuck together.
me to her friends,
to play with the other kids.
לשחק עם הילדים האחרים.
that are really friendly but super messy.
שהם באמת חברותיים אבל מאוד מבולגנים.
but somewhat hard to understand.
technology through play.
are really good at repeating stuff,
הם באמת טובים בלחזור על דברים,
loops goes like this.
it goes, "Clap, clap, stomp, stomp
היא הולכת, "קלאפ, קלאפ, סטומפ, סטומפ
by repeating that four times.
על חזרה על כך ארבע פעמים.
by repeating that sequence
על ידי חזרה על הרצף
by repeating that sequence
על ידי חזרה על הרצף הזה
that there are no ready answers.
for Ruby's world,
לעולם של רובי,
how they see the world
איך הם רואים את העולם
play testing sessions.
these four pictures.
את ארבע התמונות האלו.
do you think is a computer?"
"איזה מאלו אתם חושבים שהוא מחשב?"
very conservative and go,
spends way too much time."
that actually, a car is a computer,
might not be a computer,
a computer inside of it.
so many different kinds of computers,
יש להן כל כך הרבה סוגי מחשבים,
and the burglar alarms.
with an on/off button on them.
עם כפתורים קטנים עליהן.
"Today you have this magic ability
"היום יש לכם את יכולת הקסם הזו
into a computer."
I don't know the right answer for this."
אנחנו לא יודעים את התשובה הנכונה לזה."
the right answer, either.
to hear about this thing
you are going to be the ones
where everything is a computer."
who came to me
if it were a computer,
what else could it do?"
מה עוד הוא יכול לעשות?"
were a computer,
with my father
could also be a movie projector."
להיות מקרן סרטים."
is definitely not ready yet,
of making the world more ready
can be a part of that change.
חלק מהשינוי הזה.
and the helpful RAM and ROM
והזכרון העוזר והרום
our computer together,
is to be an astronaut.
these huge headphones on
in his tiny paper computer
navigation application.
in the Martian orbit,
safely back to earth.
a profoundly different view of the world
the more inclusive,
יותר נגיש, יותר כוללני ויותר מגוון,
we make the world of technology,
the world will look like.
don't only include
Silicon Valley boys,
and Norwegian librarians.
the little Ada Lovelaces of tomorrow,
reality of 1s and 0s,
and brave about technology.
בנוגע לטכנולוגיה.
and the opportunities
that is wonderful, whimsical
in Moominvalley.
I would roam around the Tatooines.
I would go to sleep in Narnia.
to be the perfect profession for me.
and paradigms and practices.
with the pure power of logic.
עם הכוח הטהור של הלוגיקה.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Linda Liukas - Programmer, storyteller and illustratorLinda Liukas wants to create a more diverse and colorful world of technology, starting with the poetry of code.
Why you should listen
Linda Liukas is a programmer, storyteller and illustrator. Her children's book, Hello Ruby, is the "world’s most whimsical way to learn about technology, computing and coding.” Liukas founded Rails Girls, which has organized workshops in over 230 cities, teaching the basics of programming to more than 10,000 women. Linda worked at Codeacademy, which she left to write stories that teach children about software and programming. She won the 2013 Ruby Hero prize and was named the Digital Champion of Finland by the EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda.
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