🔮 AI & pedagogy; gene-editing for Mars; new robot vocabulary; caterpillars, whales and Bjork++ #178

Hello everyone,

I am on my summer holidays. While I am away, Linda Liukas has kindly agreed to look after Exponential View this week.

Linda and I first met in Copenhagen in 2016. She mesmerised an audience with her talk on how to teach young children about computing. I hope she will take you on a similar journey of whimsy and pedagogy.

Enjoy her Exponential View,
Azeem

About Linda

I’m Linda (@lindaliukas) and I write and illustrate children’s books about technology: code, computers, the Internet. I’m currently finalising a book on how to explain machine learning to a six-year-old.

My work exists at the intersection of three things: early childhood education, technology and play. The first draws inspiration from Montessori, John Dewey and Reggio Emilia, the second from computing culture of the 1960s, the third is the small, soft, communal, subjective side of learning that is often forgotten.

When I first started writing books about technology for kids, I knew almost nothing about pedagogy. For…